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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... Chief Justice says to him , almost contemp- tuously - ' You speak as having power to do wrong ' ( II , i , 133 ) , we realize he has none in any significant sense ( he can still abuse a tavern hostess or a country simpleton ) . His ...
... CHIEF JUSTICE Well , God send the Prince a better companion ! FALSTAFF God send the companion a better prince ! I cannot rid my hands of him . CHIEF JUSTICE Well , the King hath severed you and Prince Harry . I hear you are going with ...
... CHIEF JUSTICE [ To Gower ] I have heard better news . FALSTAFF What's the news , my lord ? CHIEF JUSTICE [ Ignoring Falstaff ] Where lay the King tonight ? GOWER At Basingstoke , my lord . FALSTAFF I hope , my lord , all's well . What ...
Contents
Introduction | xi |
Select Bibliography | cxxiii |
HENRY IV PART ONE | 113 |
Copyright | |
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Histories, vol. 2: Volume 2; Introduction by Tony Tanner William Shakespeare No preview available - 1994 |