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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Volume 2; Introduction by Tony Tanner William Shakespeare. More than thou hast , and with it joy thy life . So as thou liv'st in peace , die free from strife ; For though mine enemy thou hast ever been , High sparks of honor in thee have ...
... hast done , and then say it was in fight ! What trick , what device , what starting hole canst thou now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent shame ? POINS Come , let's hear , Jack . What trick hast thou now ? 255 260 265 ...
... hast stol'n that which after some few hours Were thine without offense , and at my death Thou hast sealed up my expectation . Thy life did manifest thou lov'dst me not , And thou wilt have me die assured of it . 105 Thou hid'st a ...
Contents
Introduction | xi |
Select Bibliography | cxxiii |
HENRY IV PART ONE | 113 |
Copyright | |
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