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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... tongue a party - verdict gave : Why at our justice seem'st thou then to lour ? 230 GAUNT Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour . You urged me as a judge , but I had rather 235 You would have bid me argue like a father . O , had ...
... tongue , you bull's pizzle , you stockfish- O for breath to utter what is like thee ! —you tailor's yard , you ... tongue ox - tongue 245 pizzle penis 245 stockfish dried codfish 247-48 standing tuck upright rapier when thou hast tired ...
... tongue to tell thy errand . Even such a man , so faint , so spiritless , So dull , so dead in look , so woebegone , Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night , And would have told him half his Troy was burnt . But Priam found the fire ...
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 |