Unconformities in Shakespeare’s History Plays |
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... dramatic genius and that they form a distinct group as far as subject - matter is con- cerned . They also offer peculiar advantages to an analysis of composition and structure , both because of their special dependence on their sources ...
... dramatic genius and that they form a distinct group as far as subject - matter is con- cerned . They also offer peculiar advantages to an analysis of composition and structure , both because of their special dependence on their sources ...
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... dramatic tradition , theatrical conventions , etc. If the play is built on a literary source we may even be familiar with the material it draws upon , and if it is historical we may know the history . Such information may hamper as well ...
... dramatic tradition , theatrical conventions , etc. If the play is built on a literary source we may even be familiar with the material it draws upon , and if it is historical we may know the history . Such information may hamper as well ...
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... dramatic implications seem too serious for the issue to be dropped . There is the promise of a major clash at the end of the opening scene of 1 Henry VI , when both Exeter and the Bishop of Winchester seem about to hurry to Eltham , one ...
... dramatic implications seem too serious for the issue to be dropped . There is the promise of a major clash at the end of the opening scene of 1 Henry VI , when both Exeter and the Bishop of Winchester seem about to hurry to Eltham , one ...
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... dramatic poet of all time , whereas it ought to be seen as quite the opposite . I do think faults are sometimes faults in the common sense , but I would also agree with Dr Rees that very often they are more than com- pensated for by ...
... dramatic poet of all time , whereas it ought to be seen as quite the opposite . I do think faults are sometimes faults in the common sense , but I would also agree with Dr Rees that very often they are more than com- pensated for by ...
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... dramatic artefacts . I hope at least for agreement that any analysis of Shakespeare's plays must begin with textual analysis , that is to say it must be based on a con- sidered opinion of the nature of the text . One cannot , for ...
... dramatic artefacts . I hope at least for agreement that any analysis of Shakespeare's plays must begin with textual analysis , that is to say it must be based on a con- sidered opinion of the nature of the text . One cannot , for ...
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