Unconformities in Shakespeare’s History Plays |
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... Henry's decision at the end of the opening scene of 3 Henry VI to send Exeter as a messenger to the northern lords in order to reconcile them . We hear nothing further of this mission and it hardly matters . It has served to illustrate ...
... Henry's decision at the end of the opening scene of 3 Henry VI to send Exeter as a messenger to the northern lords in order to reconcile them . We hear nothing further of this mission and it hardly matters . It has served to illustrate ...
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... Henry VI trilogy as the order of composition , he offers suppositions involving Shakespeare's mental processes which ... Henry's claim , there is no basis for ascribing a sense of insecurity to his creature King Henry at this point . The ...
... Henry VI trilogy as the order of composition , he offers suppositions involving Shakespeare's mental processes which ... Henry's claim , there is no basis for ascribing a sense of insecurity to his creature King Henry at this point . The ...
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... Henry VI ) and The Chronicle History of Henry the fift which might be taken as vouchers for historicity , but then what of The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet ( Q ) or the True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and his ...
... Henry VI ) and The Chronicle History of Henry the fift which might be taken as vouchers for historicity , but then what of The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet ( Q ) or the True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and his ...
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... Henry VI , as we shall see , is basically a heroic drama with a neatly constructed conflict , heightened by the quasi- supernatural character of the two main antagonists , with an added action on the political level . 2 Henry VI has a ...
... Henry VI , as we shall see , is basically a heroic drama with a neatly constructed conflict , heightened by the quasi- supernatural character of the two main antagonists , with an added action on the political level . 2 Henry VI has a ...
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... Henry VI would have to be murdered in the Tower and not killed at St Albans if he was to remain recognisably ... Henry VI and 2 Henry VI have no proper ending , 2 Henry IV no separate beginning , and 3 Henry VI no middle . But there is a ...
... Henry VI would have to be murdered in the Tower and not killed at St Albans if he was to remain recognisably ... Henry VI and 2 Henry VI have no proper ending , 2 Henry IV no separate beginning , and 3 Henry VI no middle . But there is a ...
Contents
The Whole Contention One Play into Two | 19 |
Treachery and Dissension Two Plays into One 83 28 53 | 38 |
Plots and Prophecies The Tragedy of King Richard the Third | 53 |
The Troublesome Theme of King John | 72 |
King Richards Guilt and the Poetry of Kingship | 86 |
Downtrod Mortimer and Plump Jack | 103 |
The Disunity of King Henry V | 121 |
All Is True or the Honest Chronicler King Henry VIII | 145 |
Shakespeare at Work | 159 |
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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 VIII Henry's Holinshed Honigmann 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 prophecy 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 thou Tillyard Troublesome Raigne True Tragedy Tudor myth victory Warwick Wolsey words York's Yorkist