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... action is anticipated or prepared for in some way and fails to materialise , or materialises in a different way from what we have been led to expect . Expectation and fulfilment are key concepts in the kind of structural analysis which ...
... action is anticipated or prepared for in some way and fails to materialise , or materialises in a different way from what we have been led to expect . Expectation and fulfilment are key concepts in the kind of structural analysis which ...
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... action involving cruelty , betrayal , and perjury . It abounds in rhetorical speeches and makes open use of moral allegory and symbolic action . But there is a seesaw of victory and defeat which provides a kind of structural rhythm not ...
... action involving cruelty , betrayal , and perjury . It abounds in rhetorical speeches and makes open use of moral allegory and symbolic action . But there is a seesaw of victory and defeat which provides a kind of structural rhythm not ...
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... action , as Peter Ure , following Coleridge , has pointed out . In this process the action itself becomes attenuated and expectations are disappointed , in part no doubt deliberately , in part by the accident of composition . The ...
... action , as Peter Ure , following Coleridge , has pointed out . In this process the action itself becomes attenuated and expectations are disappointed , in part no doubt deliberately , in part by the accident of composition . The ...
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The Whole Contention One Play into Two | 19 |
Treachery and Dissension Two Plays into One | 38 |
Plots and Prophecies The Tragedy of King Richard the Third | 53 |
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action Agincourt Anne appearance Arden audience Aumerle Bardolph Bastard battle battle of Towton beginning Bolingbroke brother Buckingham Bullough character chorus chronicles Clarence conflict crown curse Dauphin death Dover Wilson dramatic dramatist Duke of York E. M. W. Tillyard Edward Elizabeth Elizabethan England English History Play expectations Falstaff Folio France French Gaunt Gloucester Gloucester's Hal's Harry hath Henry IV plays Henry VI plays Henry VIII Henry's Holinshed Hotspur house of York inconsistent Justice Katherine King Henry King John King Richard king's lines Lord Margaret messenger Mortimer Mowbray murder Northumberland obviously opening scene Penguin perhaps plot political prince probably quarto Queen revenge Ribner Richard II Richmond Rossiter Salisbury says seems Shakespeare Shakespeare's History Plays Shakespeare's plays Shrewsbury soliloquy Somerset speaks speech stage structure Suffolk Talbot play tetralogy theme Tillyard Troublesome Raigne True Tragedy Tudor myth victory Warwick Wolsey words York's Yorkist