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... religious , and assured in action . Richard III is terrifyingly powerful - but wicked . Richard II is weak , but , under disaster , becomes almost a saint , religious phraseology so appropriately accompanying practical failure that a ...
... religious , and assured in action . Richard III is terrifyingly powerful - but wicked . Richard II is weak , but , under disaster , becomes almost a saint , religious phraseology so appropriately accompanying practical failure that a ...
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... religious humility is , however , far from easy . In Marlowe's Tamburlaine we have an amazing tale of conquest , the hero starting as a peasant , conquering nation after nation in scene after scene , and ending as all but master of the ...
... religious humility is , however , far from easy . In Marlowe's Tamburlaine we have an amazing tale of conquest , the hero starting as a peasant , conquering nation after nation in scene after scene , and ending as all but master of the ...
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... religious autonomy . Whereas our three tragic heroes were excessively proud and fell , each by the King's rejection , so Cranmer is excessively humble and rises , by the King's grace . Though the play seems at first merely to record ...
... religious autonomy . Whereas our three tragic heroes were excessively proud and fell , each by the King's rejection , so Cranmer is excessively humble and rises , by the King's grace . Though the play seems at first merely to record ...
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OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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