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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... better Welsh . I'll to dinner . MORTIMER Peace , cousin Percy ; you will make him mad . GLENDOWER I can call spirits ... better Welsh ( 1 ) brags better ( 2 ) talks more unintelligibly 66 Booteless profitless ( probably trisyllabic ) 68 ...
... better spared a better man . O , I should have a heavy miss of thee If I were much in love with vanity . Death hath not struck so fat a deer today , Though many dearer , in this bloody fray . Emboweled will I see thee by - and - by ...
... better companion ! FALSTAFF God send the companion a better prince ! I cannot rid my hands of him . CHIEF JUSTICE Well , the King hath severed you and Prince Harry . I hear you are going with Lord John of Lancaster against the ...
Contents
Introduction | xi |
Select Bibliography | cxxiii |
HENRY IV PART ONE | 113 |
Copyright | |
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Histories, vol. 2: Volume 2; Introduction by Tony Tanner William Shakespeare No preview available - 1994 |