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... Henry . Another critic , worried by Hal's political irresponsibility in the tavern scene of 1 Henry IV when he turns away the king's messenger who has come to summon him to the palace , gives a completely unfounded reading of the ...
... Henry . Another critic , worried by Hal's political irresponsibility in the tavern scene of 1 Henry IV when he turns away the king's messenger who has come to summon him to the palace , gives a completely unfounded reading of the ...
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... plays but in general thinks the plots are firmly handled , even when , as in Richard II and Henry IV , the epic element becomes prominent : Shakespeare in Richard II and 1 and 2 Henry IV gave us his version , which I have called epic ...
... plays but in general thinks the plots are firmly handled , even when , as in Richard II and Henry IV , the epic element becomes prominent : Shakespeare in Richard II and 1 and 2 Henry IV gave us his version , which I have called epic ...
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... plays . Above all , as most commentators agree , those plays have organised shape ... Henry VI , as we shall see , is basically a heroic drama with a neatly ... IV plays are mainly comedies and the two most similar in kind , though there ...
... plays . Above all , as most commentators agree , those plays have organised shape ... Henry VI , as we shall see , is basically a heroic drama with a neatly ... IV plays are mainly comedies and the two most similar in kind , though there ...
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... IV , and the French Dauphin to fight at Agincourt . I have already discussed ... plays in twos and threes sometimes obscures one or other of these elements . 1 Henry ... plays and in one case in a double or two - part play , 2–3 Henry VI . Only ...
... IV , and the French Dauphin to fight at Agincourt . I have already discussed ... plays in twos and threes sometimes obscures one or other of these elements . 1 Henry ... plays and in one case in a double or two - part play , 2–3 Henry VI . Only ...
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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