Histories, Vol. 2: Volume 2; Introduction by Tony TannerKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1994 - Всего страниц: 778 William Shakespeare arrived at his splendid maturity as an artist in his second cycle of history plays. With their superb battle scenes; their magnificent major and minor characters; their stories of ambition, usurpation, guilt, and redemption; and their profound ideas about the social order, these plays represent the Elizabethan historical drama in its full glory. And thanks to parts one and two of Henry IV our literature is graced—in the figure of the dissolute and boastful knight Sir John Falstaff—with one of the greatest comic creations in the history of the stage. |
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... once mysterious and human , and I think this root uncertainty or ambiguity is a masterstroke on Shakespeare's part . Such are the figures who , at once , make and are made by history . - Two short premonitory scenes , which follow one ...
... once , took fire and heat away From the best - tempered courage in his troops . For from his mettle was his party steeled , Which once in him abated , all the rest Turned on themselves , like dull and heavy lead . And as the thing ...
... Once more unto the breach , dear friends , once more ; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears , Then imitate ...
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Introduction | xi |
Select Bibliography | cxxiii |
HENRY IV PART ONE | 113 |
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