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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... ( perhaps not coincidentally , there are three of these in each play ) . I quote Geoffrey Bullough : ' In both plays the king is deposed , ill - treated , and then murdered in an interesting manner , leaving the kingdom in the hands of a ...
... ( perhaps an altogether more responsible , artefactual matter ) . It is entirely possible that Bolingbroke's impulses remain mysterious to himself . He certainly shows signs of a guilty conscience ( though he never reveals , or perhaps ...
... Perhaps it is as simple as that . Yet Shakespeare has provided such a subtle , penetrating portrait of this complex prince that I find it hard to think that he intended us to forget all we have seen of the unmoved calculator . Vernon's ...
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Introduction | xi |
Select Bibliography | cxxiii |
HENRY IV PART ONE | 113 |
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