Unconformities in Shakespeare’s History Plays |
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... chorus introducing Act II insists , anyway , that the lords have been cor- rupted by French gold , the charge of corruption is repeated by Exeter at the beginning of 11.ii and amplified by the king , and Shakespeare's main intention , I ...
... chorus introducing Act II insists , anyway , that the lords have been cor- rupted by French gold , the charge of corruption is repeated by Exeter at the beginning of 11.ii and amplified by the king , and Shakespeare's main intention , I ...
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... choruses of Henry V awkwardly fitted in place and partly in disagreement with the plot I am not saying that the play would be better without them or disparaging their stirring poetry but trying to explain how , and to some extent why ...
... choruses of Henry V awkwardly fitted in place and partly in disagreement with the plot I am not saying that the play would be better without them or disparaging their stirring poetry but trying to explain how , and to some extent why ...
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... choruses , and ghosts extensively . Richard II is again ' an attempt to do something different ' , ' it is deliberately a play of character , thought , and emotion rather than action ' ( Stanley Wells ) . It is the most poetic and ...
... choruses , and ghosts extensively . Richard II is again ' an attempt to do something different ' , ' it is deliberately a play of character , thought , and emotion rather than action ' ( Stanley Wells ) . It is the most poetic and ...
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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