lendower) and the Percys persists into 2HIV, but in the second part Glendower is effectively absent from the dramatic scene.
Shakespeare's characterization of Glendower in 1HIV focuses on the extremity of his character and that of Wales. Glendower makes an actual appearance in person in 1HIV in only one scene (III.1), to seal the conspiracy against Henry with Hotspur, Worcester, and Mortimer. Despite the fact that the conspirators are portrayed as dividing up the whole of Britain among them, Glendower's reasons for alliance with Percy and Mortimer can be interpreted as instrumental, inasmuch as "Glendower's aims concerned Welsh independence, not Henry's crown" (Saccio 46). That instrumentality, however, is complicated by the fact that the conspiracy and independence movement alike appear to have been sealed by the marriage of Mortimer to Glendower's daughter.
Before the meeting of the conspirators in 1HIV III.i, a strong sense of Glendower's personality as leader has already been established, the sense being one of extreme forcefulness and unpredictabil
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