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At the start of Henry V, the chorus speaks of a "crooked figure" or zero that can be powerful if placed next to a one; this essay uses conceptual blending theory to show how Shakespeare takes that idea of the relative placement of numbers to signify value to challenge the war-like King and his defeat of France. The essay brings in research on math from Rafael Nunez and George Lakoff and displays the mathematical scaffolding under this play.
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This page is a summary of: The Narrative of Nothing: The Mathematical Blends of Narrator and Hero in Shakespeare’s Henry V, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/9783110291230.343.
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