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... Rossiter . Writing about Richard II , he declared that ' Whether you approach [ this play ] from the angle of the texture of the verse , the verse - styles , character , plot or theme , you encounter what geologists call ...
... Rossiter . Writing about Richard II , he declared that ' Whether you approach [ this play ] from the angle of the texture of the verse , the verse - styles , character , plot or theme , you encounter what geologists call ...
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... Rossiter thought that in Richard II we may at times be greatly puzzled unless we make mental reference to the anonymous play Thomas of Woodstock . Then again gaps between expectation and fulfilment may be due to the author's failure to ...
... Rossiter thought that in Richard II we may at times be greatly puzzled unless we make mental reference to the anonymous play Thomas of Woodstock . Then again gaps between expectation and fulfilment may be due to the author's failure to ...
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... Rossiter , like Ornstein , sees Shakespeare as the untrammelled artist , but also as a man with a lively awareness both of the society he lived in and of the past which had shaped it . He was influenced by myths and orthodoxies but ...
... Rossiter , like Ornstein , sees Shakespeare as the untrammelled artist , but also as a man with a lively awareness both of the society he lived in and of the past which had shaped it . He was influenced by myths and orthodoxies but ...
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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