 | Emma Smith - Drama - 2004 - 294 pages
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 | Deanne Williams - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 308 pages
...embodies a principle of resistance that is codified in nationalistic terms at the play's conclusion: This England never did. nor never shall. Lie at the proud...conqueror. But when it first did help to wound itself. (5.7.112-14). Patriotic effusions such as these have inspired critics to dub the Bastard "an English... | |
 | Lily Bess Campbell - Drama - 2005 - 368 pages
...TROUBLESOME REIGN OF KING JOHN SHAKESPEARE'S King John closes with _Jits most often quoted words: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud...first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes arc come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall... | |
 | Robert Gibson - History - 2004 - 336 pages
...this earth, this realm, this England. The other, shorter but no less emphatic, is in King John: This England never did, nor never shall Lie at the proud...conqueror But when it first did help to wound itself. . . These passages owe as much to the time when they were written as to their position within the action... | |
 | Margaret Gaskin - History - 2006 - 472 pages
...Richard II. Shakespeare was a favorite oracle now, with the littleknown King John much plundered: This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud...make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true. Colin Perry read this in an American magazine: Perry, p. 201; Come The Three Corners by Sir Harry Britain... | |
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This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall... 
