Histories, Vol. 2: Volume 2; Introduction by Tony TannerKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1994 - 778 pagini William Shakespeare arrived at his splendid maturity as an artist in his second cycle of history plays. With their superb battle scenes; their magnificent major and minor characters; their stories of ambition, usurpation, guilt, and redemption; and their profound ideas about the social order, these plays represent the Elizabethan historical drama in its full glory. And thanks to parts one and two of Henry IV our literature is graced—in the figure of the dissolute and boastful knight Sir John Falstaff—with one of the greatest comic creations in the history of the stage. |
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... Holinshed , perhaps quite unintentionally , allows us at least to consider the possibility of regarding the conversion in a slightly different way . Holinshed writes that Henry ' deter- mined to put on him the shape of a new man ' . I ...
... Holinshed , however , links the order to Henry's anger at the attack on what Fluellen calls ' the poys and the luggage ' , as well as his anxiety about the possibility of another attack by the French . Though even Holinshed seems not to ...
... ( Holinshed's error for Charles the Bold ) 77 Tenth ( Holinshed's error for Ninth ) 82 lineal lineally descended 90 95 100 105 110 115 So that , as 373 LIFE OF HENRY THE FIFTH I.ii.
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Introduction | xi |
Select Bibliography | cxxiii |
HENRY IV PART ONE | 113 |
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