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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... pray , More sins for this forgiveness prosper may . [ Enter Duchess . ] This fest'red joint cut off , the rest rest ... pray whoever prays 84 rest rest those that remain stay 87 Love ... can i.e. , if he does not love his son he cannot ...
... prayers are in jest ; His words come from his mouth , ours from our breast ; He prays but faintly , and would be denied ; We pray with heart and soul , and all beside ; His weary joints would gladly rise , I know ; Our knees still kneel ...
... pray - and yet , zounds , I lie , for they pray continually to their saint , the com- monwealth , or rather , not pray to her , but prey on her , for they ride up and down on her and make her their boots . CHAMBERLAIN What , 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 |