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Page xvi
... Henry VI . , in which Shakespeare's share is generally admitted to have been that of a reviser . The question naturally arises whether Shakespeare was the author of Richard III . , or merely the editor and reviser of a sequel to those ...
... Henry VI . , in which Shakespeare's share is generally admitted to have been that of a reviser . The question naturally arises whether Shakespeare was the author of Richard III . , or merely the editor and reviser of a sequel to those ...
Page xvii
... Henry VI . III . ii . and V. vi . He declares his aims in the vigorous rhythm which Marlowe makes his heroes use , explicit in sense and full of sound . These speeches , in- deed , might have been written by Marlowe in a restrained mood ...
... Henry VI . III . ii . and V. vi . He declares his aims in the vigorous rhythm which Marlowe makes his heroes use , explicit in sense and full of sound . These speeches , in- deed , might have been written by Marlowe in a restrained mood ...
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... Henry VI . plays ; while probably the congeniality of a tragic figure like Richard to a taste founded on Marlowe's models has given an opportunity for the independent expression of that quality . Any tendency to exaggeration is softened ...
... Henry VI . plays ; while probably the congeniality of a tragic figure like Richard to a taste founded on Marlowe's models has given an opportunity for the independent expression of that quality . Any tendency to exaggeration is softened ...
Page xix
... Henry VI . had appeared before September , 1592 , as is probable from the famous allusion in Greene's Groat's - worth of Wit , Richard III . , in which the strong outlines of the character of Gloucester are developed directly from the ...
... Henry VI . had appeared before September , 1592 , as is probable from the famous allusion in Greene's Groat's - worth of Wit , Richard III . , in which the strong outlines of the character of Gloucester are developed directly from the ...
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... Henry VI . The occasional humour of the Henry VI . plays is certainly almost wanting in Richard III .; but they are far surpassed by Richard III . in point of dramatic irony . Certain weaknesses which may be detected here and there ...
... Henry VI . The occasional humour of the Henry VI . plays is certainly almost wanting in Richard III .; but they are far surpassed by Richard III . in point of dramatic irony . Certain weaknesses which may be detected here and there ...
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Page 7 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York ; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Page 8 - Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Page 47 - But then I sigh, and with a piece of Scripture, Tell them — that God bids us do good for evil ; And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Page 199 - By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard, Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Page 9 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page vii - The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. Containing, His treacherous Plots against his brother Clarence : the pittiefull murther of his innocent nephewes : His tyrannicall vsurpation : with the whole course of his detested life, and most deserucd death. As it hath beene lately acted by the Right honourable the Lord Chamberlaine, his seruants.
Page 199 - ... a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree ; Murder, stern murder, in the dir'st degree ; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, — Guilty ! guilty ! I shall despair.
Page 110 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you, send for some of them.
Page 10 - Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover. To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 51 - With that grim ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick ; Who cried aloud, " What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence...