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Page 52
... relations with the Contention plays . On an overall aesthetic view the succession of plays on the reign of Henry VI assumes an epic as well as a dramatic character and the traffic of relations runs both backwards and forwards ; not ...
... relations with the Contention plays . On an overall aesthetic view the succession of plays on the reign of Henry VI assumes an epic as well as a dramatic character and the traffic of relations runs both backwards and forwards ; not ...
Page 131
... relation to the king and the direct involve- ment in the central political issues of his tetralogy which had been from the first an integral part of Falstaff ' . " There is in fact a proliferation of comic material in Henry V , as if ...
... relation to the king and the direct involve- ment in the central political issues of his tetralogy which had been from the first an integral part of Falstaff ' . " There is in fact a proliferation of comic material in Henry V , as if ...
Page 143
... relation to such central themes as war and religion . " 46 The frequent failure to recognise this complexity may be partly due to stock responses in times of war and national peril , from which we have never been far removed ( witness ...
... relation to such central themes as war and religion . " 46 The frequent failure to recognise this complexity may be partly due to stock responses in times of war and national peril , from which we have never been far removed ( witness ...
Contents
The Whole Contention One Play into | 19 |
Treachery and Dissension Two Plays into | 38 |
Plots and Prophecies | 59 |
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