ABSTRACT
Paul Jorgensen, one of the prime movers of the Henry as 'ideal general' claque, rightly contextualizes Henry's brand of militarism within the contemporary accounts of the Cadiz enterprise168 and the 'ideal general' literature which stresses the importance of maintaining the strict bounds of rank and degree and which demonstrates the discord, friction and insubordination resulting from multiple command.169 Along with Julius Caesar and Coriolanus, Henry V is a play which dramatically presents the value of single, strong command and demonstrates the military worth of the strictest observance of the bounds of rank. And Jorgensen is careful to trace the play's derivation from the classical military texts of Livy, Plutarch, Aemilius and Varro of the incompatibilities and muddle of split leadership.170
