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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... heaven ! The trumpets sound . Enter [ Bolingbroke , ] Duke of Hereford , appellant , in armor . RICHARD Marshal , demand of yonder knight in arms , Both who he is , and why he cometh hither Thus plated in habiliments of war , And ...
... heavens yield must be embraced And not neglected . Else heaven would , And we will not : heaven's offer we refuse , The proffered means of succor and redress . AUMERLE He means , my lord , that we are too remiss , Whilst Bolingbroke ...
... Heaven ever laid up to make parents happy May hourly fall upon ye ! KING Thank you , good Lord Archbishop . What is ... heaven now bids me ; and the words I utter Let none think flattery , for they'll find ' em truth . This royal infant ...
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 |