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A Vision of Dystopia: Beehives and Mechanization.

Abstract: When discussing "the Elizabethan World Picture," scholars usually make much of the Tudor Homily X, Part II, on "Good Order and Obedience," and of Ulysses' magnificent speech on "Degree" (Troilus and Cressida, I.iii).1 We should recall, however, that Shakespeare has another presentation of the conservative view of a well-ordered commonwealth: the Archbishop of Canterbury's speech on the honeybees in the second scene of Henry V. Falstaff has been rejected and, we soon learn, lies dying (II.i.80f.). King Henry and his court know nothing of this and probably wouldn't much care if they did know; they are engrossed in strategic consider ations that would either permit or prohibit an upcoming war in France. Canterbury momentarily digresses, it seems, from the imme diate military issue to present a bit of pious lore, developing Exeter's point that a well-managed state "doth keep in one consent, / Con greeing in a full and natural close / Like music."