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... story alone , as its prologue shows , being rather a love - story thrown into sharp relation with , and finally serving to heal , civil discord . Often in reading Shakespearian drama we do well to expand its obvious content , to put ...
... story alone , as its prologue shows , being rather a love - story thrown into sharp relation with , and finally serving to heal , civil discord . Often in reading Shakespearian drama we do well to expand its obvious content , to put ...
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... story which we are now considering . The Crown symbolises the nation's soul - life , which is also the greater self of each subject . In Shakespeare's human kings we watch different persons under- taking that supreme responsibility ...
... story which we are now considering . The Crown symbolises the nation's soul - life , which is also the greater self of each subject . In Shakespeare's human kings we watch different persons under- taking that supreme responsibility ...
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... story As they were living . . ( Prologue , 25. ) Think , when we talk of horses , that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i ' the receiving earth . ( Henry V , Chorus - Act I , 26. ) Both plays have contemporary impact : Henry V ...
... story As they were living . . ( Prologue , 25. ) Think , when we talk of horses , that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i ' the receiving earth . ( Henry V , Chorus - Act I , 26. ) Both plays have contemporary impact : Henry V ...
Contents
OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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