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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... turn his speech has taken , that Falstaff should say : ' A good wit will make use of anything . I will turn diseases to commodity ' ( I , ii , 258–9 ) . ' That smooth - faced gentleman , tickling commo- dity ... this bawd , this broker ...
... turn to sparks of fire ' ( II , iv , 72–3 ) . It is time for some very justifiable ' choler ' , and we duly get the ' sparks ' – or rather , Wolsey does : ' your heart / Is crammed with arrogancy , spleen , and pride ' ( II , iv , 109 ...
... Turn head , and stop pursuit ; for coward dogs Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten Runs far before them . Good my Sovereign , Take up the English short , and let them know Of what a monarchy you are the head . Self ...
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Introduction | xi |
Select Bibliography | cxxiii |
HENRY IV PART ONE | 113 |
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