Unconformities in Shakespeare’s History Plays |
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... character , plot or theme , you encounter what geologists call " unconformities " . " A similar term had already been employed by M. R. Ridley , commenting on theories of com- posite authorship in 1 Henry VI : ' any reader who sets ...
... character , plot or theme , you encounter what geologists call " unconformities " . " A similar term had already been employed by M. R. Ridley , commenting on theories of com- posite authorship in 1 Henry VI : ' any reader who sets ...
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... character of the two main antagonists , with an added action on the political level . 2 Henry VI has a direct , forward drive through all its profusion of intrigue , shedding victim after victim in a complex but realistic power struggle ...
... character of the two main antagonists , with an added action on the political level . 2 Henry VI has a direct , forward drive through all its profusion of intrigue , shedding victim after victim in a complex but realistic power struggle ...
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... character , thought , and emotion rather than action ' , ' and the same may be said of King John . In both histories the central character is a weak king , or a king who proves weak in the testing after an initial show of strength . In ...
... character , thought , and emotion rather than action ' , ' and the same may be said of King John . In both histories the central character is a weak king , or a king who proves weak in the testing after an initial show of strength . In ...
Contents
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