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... 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 himself the exercise ...
... 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 himself the exercise ...
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... theme of retributive justice in Richard III is largely limited to that play . Nowhere is there much sense of a supernatural direction of events except by occult in- fluences in Richard III and superficially in Henry V. But the plays of ...
... theme of retributive justice in Richard III is largely limited to that play . Nowhere is there much sense of a supernatural direction of events except by occult in- fluences in Richard III and superficially in Henry V. But the plays of ...
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... theme of the play is the loss of France , and the ruin of England ' ( Arden 1H6 , p . xlix ) ; and M. M. Reese : ' It is primarily a play about the French wars , showing how Talbot ... lost the English provinces in France . . . ' ( The ...
... theme of the play is the loss of France , and the ruin of England ' ( Arden 1H6 , p . xlix ) ; and M. M. Reese : ' It is primarily a play about the French wars , showing how Talbot ... lost the English provinces in France . . . ' ( The ...
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