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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... Majesty . KING You all look strangely on me . [ To the Chief Justice ] And you most . You are , I think , assured I love you not . CHIEF JUSTICE I am assured , if I be measured rightly , Your Majesty hath no just cause to hate me . KING ...
... Majesty says very true . If your Maj- 100 esties is rememb'red of it , the Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow , wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps ; which your Majesty know to this hour is an honorable badge of ...
... Majesty hear now , saving your Maj- esty's manhood , what an arrant , rascally , beggarly , lousy knave it is ! I hope your Majesty is pear me testimony and witness , and will avouchment , that this is the glove of Alençon that your Majesty ...
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 |