Henry IV., Part 1Adam and Charles Black, 1902 - 124 pages |
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... Characters , Composition , and Interpretation . The Notes , which are comparatively few , are mainly con- cerned with what is typically Elizabethan in Shakespeare's language . All references are confined to the individual play in each ...
... Characters , Composition , and Interpretation . The Notes , which are comparatively few , are mainly con- cerned with what is typically Elizabethan in Shakespeare's language . All references are confined to the individual play in each ...
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... xxi The Construction , The Characters , - XXV - The Interpretation , xxix Dramatis Personæ , xxxii I TEXT , EXAMINATION PAPER , NOTES , INDEX , 106 107 123 GENEALOGICAL TABLE . SHOWING REAL RELATIONSHIPS OF HISTORICAL PERSONS MENTIONED.
... xxi The Construction , The Characters , - XXV - The Interpretation , xxix Dramatis Personæ , xxxii I TEXT , EXAMINATION PAPER , NOTES , INDEX , 106 107 123 GENEALOGICAL TABLE . SHOWING REAL RELATIONSHIPS OF HISTORICAL PERSONS MENTIONED.
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... characters and incidents ready made , and giving the oppor- tunity for authors to court favour by appealing to the patriotic sentiments of the audience , and to give expression to current political feeling , as in such lines as No more ...
... characters and incidents ready made , and giving the oppor- tunity for authors to court favour by appealing to the patriotic sentiments of the audience , and to give expression to current political feeling , as in such lines as No more ...
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... characters and stories , which are , however , blended together in the 5th Act . Generally speaking , they may be said to deal with ' History and Comedy respectively . Prince Henry , whose character be- longs to both , serves as a ...
... characters and stories , which are , however , blended together in the 5th Act . Generally speaking , they may be said to deal with ' History and Comedy respectively . Prince Henry , whose character be- longs to both , serves as a ...
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... character and position , who by a curious coincidence owned a Boar's Head Tavern in Southwark . Whether Shakespeare intended to reproduce the character of any actual person contemporary with himself , or either of the persons who ...
... character and position , who by a curious coincidence owned a Boar's Head Tavern in Southwark . Whether Shakespeare intended to reproduce the character of any actual person contemporary with himself , or either of the persons who ...
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Anon Archbishop of York art thou Bard Bardolph BLACK'S SCHOOL TEXT blood Bolingbroke character cousin coward devil doth doublet Doug Douglas duction Earl Earl of March Eastcheap Edited Exeunt Exit faith Falstaff Farewell father fear Fran Francis Gads Gadshill Genitive give Glend Glendower grace hanged Harry Harry Percy hast thou hath head hear Henry IV History honour horse Host Hostess Illustrations Jack JOHN FINNEMORE JOHN OF LANCASTER king L. W. LYDE Lady London lord meaning Mort Mortimer never night noble Nominative absolute Northumberland Notes noun Percy Peto plague play Poins Price 6d Prince Henry Prince of Wales prithee rogue SCENE Scot Shakespeare Shrewsbury Sir John SIR WALTER BLUNT Sirrah SOHO SQUARE speak Special Introduction sweet sword syllable tell thee there's thou art thou hast verb villain Welsh Westmoreland Worcester word Zounds
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Page 91 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No.
Page 10 - I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humour of your idleness. Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world...
Page 76 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 48 - If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know, is damned ; if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord ; banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins ; but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company ; banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
Page 101 - I better brook the loss of brittle life Than those proud titles thou hast won of me ; They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh : — But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
Page 42 - Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules ; but beware instinct ; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct.
Page 13 - Took it in snuff ; and still he smiled and talk'd, And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Page 46 - I have partly thy mother's word, partly my own opinion ; but chiefly, a villainous trick of thine eye, and a foolish hanging of thy nether lip, that doth warrant me. If, then, thou be son to me, here lies the point : — Why, being son to me, art thou so pointed at ? Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher, and eat blackberries ? a question not to be asked.
Page 53 - Why, so can I, or so can any man ; But will they come when you do call for them ? Glend.
Page 46 - ... but in passion ; not in words only, but in woes also : — and yet there is a virtuous man whom I have often noted in thy company, but I know not his name. P. Hen. What manner of man, an it like your majesty ? Fal. A goodly portly man, i...