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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... Queen with [ two Ladies , ] her Attendants . QUEEN What sport shall we devise here in this garden , To drive away the heavy thought of care ? LADY Madame , we'll play at bowls . QUEEN ' Twill make me think the world is full of rubs ...
... QUEEN Banish us both , and send the King with me . RICHARD That were some love , but little policy . QUEEN Then whither he goes , thither let me go . RICHARD So two together weeping make one woe . Weep thou for me in France , I for thee ...
... queen , before the primest creature That's paragoned o ' th ' world . CAMPEIUS 215 220 225 So please your Highness , 230 The Queen being absent , ' tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till further day . Meanwhile must be an ...
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 |