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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... Wolsey's ascent and mastery effec- tively proclaim ' there's difference in no persons ' ( I , i , 139 ) . He threatens their rank , status , and distinction seems , indeed , willing and able to subvert hierarchy itself to serve his ...
... [ Wolsey beckons . ] WOLSEY [ Aside to Gardiner ] Give me your hand : much joy and favor to you . You are the King's now . GARDINER [ Aside to Wolsey ] But to be commanded Forever by your Grace , whose hand has raised me . KING Come ...
... WOLSEY How ? Of me ? CAMPEIUS They will not stick to say you envied him And , fearing he would rise ( he was so virtuous ) , Kept him a foreign man still ; which so grieved him That he ran mad and died . WOLSEY Heaven's peace be with ...
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 |