Histories, Vol. 2: Volume 2; Introduction by Tony TannerKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1994 - 778 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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... play extempore ' - where better than in a tavern where much Elizabethan drama was originally played ? – but in the event they don't play the Percys - they play the Bolingbrokes . ( Of course , Hal will ' play ' Hotspur in due course ...
... play for a kingdom , the gentler gamester is the soonest winner ' ( III , vi , 117–18 ) . ' Use lenity , sweet chuck ! ' ( III , iii , 25 ) says Pistol , in one of the few possibly ironic echoes in the play . But the only ' lenity ...
... play . The play is rich with both a grand royalism and a thrilling but solemn Christianity ; orthodox religious colouring being present and powerful throughout far in excess of any previous play . ' He admires its ' blending of national ...
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Introduction | xi |
Select Bibliography | cxxiii |
HENRY IV PART ONE | 113 |
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