Histories, Vol. 2: Volume 2; Introduction by Tony TannerKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1994 - 778 pàgines 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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... honor ? A word . What is in that word honor ? What is that honor ? Air - a trim reckoning ! Who hath it ? He that died a Wednesday . Doth he feel it ? No. ' ( And so , famously , on - see V , i , 129-41 . ) He strikes the same note when ...
... honor is my life , both grow in one ; Take honor from me , and my life is done ; 170 175 180 Then , dear my liege , mine honor let me try ; In that I live , and for that will I die . RICHARD Cousin , throw up your gage ; do you begin ...
... honor pricks me on . Yea , but how if honor prick me off when I come on ? How then ? Can honor set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honor hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honor ? A word ...
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Introduction | xi |
Select Bibliography | cxxiii |
HENRY IV PART ONE | 113 |
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Histories, vol. 2: Volume 2; Introduction by Tony Tanner William Shakespeare Previsualització no disponible - 1994 |
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The Modernist Shakespeare: Critical Texts in a Material World Hugh Grady Previsualització no disponible - 1991 |