Histories, Vol. 2: Volume 2; Introduction by Tony TannerWilliam 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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... Bolingbroke somehow know about his father's death and the regal robbery , and did he genuinely come just for his ' rights and royalties ' - with sub- sequent unforeseen circumstances somehow propelling him on to the throne ? Or was he ...
... BOLINGBROKE Yet ask . RICHARD And shall I have ? BOLINGBROKE You shall . RICHARD Then give me leave to go . BOLINGBROKE Whither ? RICHARD Whither you will , so I were from your sights . BOLINGBROKE Go some of you , convey him to the ...
... BOLINGBROKE Good aunt , stand up . DUCHESS I do not sue to stand . Pardon is all the suit I have in hand . BOLINGBROKE I pardon him as God shall pardon me . DUCHESS O , happy vantage of a kneeling knee ! Yet am I sick for fear ; speak ...
Contents
Introduction | xi |
Select Bibliography | cxxiii |
HENRY IV PART ONE | 113 |
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Histories, vol. 2: Volume 2; Introduction by Tony Tanner William Shakespeare No preview available - 1994 |