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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... Falstaff frequents his old drinking haunts , and he has never heard of Doll Tearsheet . In the event , he shares only one scene with Falstaff , prior to the climactic rejection scene , and the scene merits some particular comment ...
... FALSTAFF Four , Hal . I told thee four . POINS Ay , ay , he said four . FALSTAFF These four came all afront and mainly thrust at me . I made me no more ado but took all their seven points in my target , thus . PRINCE Seven ? Why , there ...
... FALSTAFF I would your Grace would take me with you . Whom means your Grace ? PRINCE That villainous abominable misleader of youth , Falstaff , that old white - bearded Satan . FALSTAFF My lord , the man I know . 465 PRINCE I know thou ...
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 |