The Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare, with notes prepared specially for the Oxford and Cambridge local examinations. [10 pt. Wanting King Lear and Midsummer night's dream]. |
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... plays . It was probably written 1593-4.1 There were four quarto editions of this play published during the life of Shakespeare , i.e. , 1597 , entered at Stationers ' Hall by Andrew Wise , August 29 , 1598 , 1608 , and 1615. That part ...
... plays . It was probably written 1593-4.1 There were four quarto editions of this play published during the life of Shakespeare , i.e. , 1597 , entered at Stationers ' Hall by Andrew Wise , August 29 , 1598 , 1608 , and 1615. That part ...
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... play com- mences in 1398 ; with our ancestors every man that had passed fifty seems to have been considered an old man . - Malone . 3 Henry Hereford . - In all the old copies the name is spelt Herford , showing that it was pronounced in ...
... play com- mences in 1398 ; with our ancestors every man that had passed fifty seems to have been considered an old man . - Malone . 3 Henry Hereford . - In all the old copies the name is spelt Herford , showing that it was pronounced in ...
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... play so nicely . with their names ? Gaunt . No ; misery makes sport to mock itself : Since thou dost seek to kill thy name in me , I mock my name , great king , to flatter thee . K. Rich . Should dying men flatter with those that live ...
... play so nicely . with their names ? Gaunt . No ; misery makes sport to mock itself : Since thou dost seek to kill thy name in me , I mock my name , great king , to flatter thee . K. Rich . Should dying men flatter with those that live ...
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... play upon the word : possess'd ( of a throne , ' ) possess'd ( with a spirit of infatuation ' ) . 6 6 Landlord of England art thou , and not king . This is the reading of the folio of 1623. The quarto of 1597 reads thus : ' Land- lord ...
... play upon the word : possess'd ( of a throne , ' ) possess'd ( with a spirit of infatuation ' ) . 6 6 Landlord of England art thou , and not king . This is the reading of the folio of 1623. The quarto of 1597 reads thus : ' Land- lord ...
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... play , for the duchess of Gloster died after the accession of Henry . 2 Tide of woes . - Stream , course . Anglo - Saxon tyd . 3 Woeful . - Sorrowful , afflicted . 4 Untruth . - Disloyalty , treachery . 5 The king had cut off my head ...
... play , for the duchess of Gloster died after the accession of Henry . 2 Tide of woes . - Stream , course . Anglo - Saxon tyd . 3 Woeful . - Sorrowful , afflicted . 4 Untruth . - Disloyalty , treachery . 5 The king had cut off my head ...
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Abbott Anglo-Saxon arms Aumerle Bagot banish'd banishment BISHOP OF CARLISLE blood Boling breath Bushy castle Compare Coriolanus cousin crown dear depos'd depose dost doth Duch duke of Hereford Duke of Norfolk Duke of York Earl of Wiltshire earth England Enter BOLINGBROKE Enter KING RICHARD Exeunt Exton eyes fair Farewell father fear flatter folio French gage give Gloster's death grace gracious Green grief hand hate hath heart heaven Henry Henry VI hither Holinshed honour John of Gaunt King Lear king's knee Lancaster land Latin Lear liege live lord majesty Maps noble North Northumberland old copies pardon peace Percy play preposition prince proud quarto of 1597 quartos read Queen Rich Ross royal Salisbury SCENE Scroop Shakespeare signifies sorrow soul speak stand sweet tears thee thine Thomas Mowbray thou art thou hast tongue traitor treason trumpet uncle unto verb weeping Westminster word
Popular passages
Page 63 - And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 103 - Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am : then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and...
Page 34 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son ; This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world...
Page 29 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 55 - The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war: These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
Page 15 - Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. Mine honour is my life ; both grow in one ; Take honour from me, and my life is done : Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try ; In that I live, and for that will I die.
Page 63 - All murther'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 34 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Page 70 - I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My...
Page 93 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...