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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... cause . ( I , ii , 289-93 ) He invokes God , as he will continue to do ( a Bolingbroke habit ) , though it is notable that , after Act I , the Bishops never reappear . From now on , Henry will be his own priest . But , though he talks ...
... cause to wail , but teachest me the way 273-74 book writ ( cf. Psalms 139 : 16 ) 283 sun ( cf. III.ii.50 ) 284 faced brazened out , countenanced 291 shadow outward show 292 shadow reflection 294-97 my ... soul ( Bolingbroke had implied ...
... cause be wrong , our obedience to the King wipes the crime of it out of us . WILLIAMS But if the cause be not good , the King him- self hath a heavy reckoning to make , when all those legs and arms and heads , chopped off in a battle ...
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 |