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... perhaps in disagreement , and I am indebted to a great many of them for lights and goads . But I have tried not to burden my text with too much discussion of minor issues . Instead I have added fairly plentiful notes , where it is hoped ...
... perhaps in disagreement , and I am indebted to a great many of them for lights and goads . But I have tried not to burden my text with too much discussion of minor issues . Instead I have added fairly plentiful notes , where it is hoped ...
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... Perhaps the worst of it is that all this subtilising gets in the way of real understanding : especially for the ' general ' reader , who would be better served by an assurance that a tangle is a tangle , a fracture a fracture , than ...
... Perhaps the worst of it is that all this subtilising gets in the way of real understanding : especially for the ' general ' reader , who would be better served by an assurance that a tangle is a tangle , a fracture a fracture , than ...
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... perhaps be said at this point that history plays are a genre apart and cannot be approached with the same preconceptions about unity of interest , conservation of character , and continuous plot development that we would bring to the ...
... perhaps be said at this point that history plays are a genre apart and cannot be approached with the same preconceptions about unity of interest , conservation of character , and continuous plot development that we would bring to the ...
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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