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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... I'll tie them in the wood ; our vizards we will change after we leave them ; and , sirrah , I have cases of buckram for the nonce , to immask our noted outward gar- ments . 185 PRINCE Yea , but I doubt they will be too hard for us . 190 ...
... I'll hollo " Mortimer . " Nay , I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak Nothing but " Mortimer , " and give it him To keep his anger still in motion . WORCESTER Hear you , cousin , a word . 210 215 220 225 HOTSPUR All studies here ...
... I'll thank myself For doing these fair rites of tenderness . Adieu , and take thy praise with thee to heaven . Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave , But not rememb'red in thy epitaph . He spieth Falstaff on the ground . What , old ...
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 |