King Henry VCambridge University Press, 1900 - 256 pages |
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... characters , either leaving out their speeches altogether , or transferring them to other characters . " Thus in 1. 2 Canterbury and Ely 1 All these details about the early editions are due to other editors . coalesce in a single ...
... characters , either leaving out their speeches altogether , or transferring them to other characters . " Thus in 1. 2 Canterbury and Ely 1 All these details about the early editions are due to other editors . coalesce in a single ...
Page xiv
... character ; the French soldiers throw at dice " who shall have the king of England and his lords " as prisoners ; the honour of leading the vanguard at Agincourt is assigned to York . Such similarities are inevitable , given a common ...
... character ; the French soldiers throw at dice " who shall have the king of England and his lords " as prisoners ; the honour of leading the vanguard at Agincourt is assigned to York . Such similarities are inevitable , given a common ...
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... character . This is certainly true of Henry V. Indeed , the play is remarkable among Shakespeare's historical dramas for its fidelity to history . Though his picture of Henry is somewhat idealised , there is nothing in the piece ...
... character . This is certainly true of Henry V. Indeed , the play is remarkable among Shakespeare's historical dramas for its fidelity to history . Though his picture of Henry is somewhat idealised , there is nothing in the piece ...
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... characters . The creative power that had been expended with equal lavishness upon a Prince Hal , a Hotspur , and a Falstaff is now massed upon one central overshadowing figure , that of King Henry V. Shakspere's aspiration in the ...
... characters . The creative power that had been expended with equal lavishness upon a Prince Hal , a Hotspur , and a Falstaff is now massed upon one central overshadowing figure , that of King Henry V. Shakspere's aspiration in the ...
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... character . else of real moment in Henry V. This simple grandeur of theme gives the play its epic character . " War " ( says Schlegel ) " is an epic rather than a dramatic object . " For war exhibits men acting in masses against each ...
... character . else of real moment in Henry V. This simple grandeur of theme gives the play its epic character . " War " ( says Schlegel ) " is an epic rather than a dramatic object . " For war exhibits men acting in masses against each ...
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KING HENRY V ED BY AW VERITY William 1564-1616 Shakespeare,A. W. (Arthur Wilson) 1863-1937 Verity No preview available - 2016 |
KING HENRY V ED BY AW VERITY William 1564-1616 Shakespeare,A. W. (Arthur Wilson) 1863-1937 Verity No preview available - 2016 |
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1st Folio Agincourt Alice archbishop army audience Bardolph battle blank verse blood brother Canterbury Captain character Chorus Constable constable of France crown Dauphin doth duke Earl edition Editors Elizabethan England English Enter King HENRY Exeter Exeunt Extract Falstaff fear Fluellen France French king friends give Gloucester glove Gower Harfleur hath heart hence Henry IV Henry VI Henry's herald Holinshed Holinshed's honour Hostess humour Julius Cæsar Kate Katharine King Lear king's Lady leek liege literally look lord Macmorris majesty means Merchant of Venice Midsummer-Night's Dream Montjoy never noble Orleans Paradise Lost phrase Pistol play princes prisoners Prol Prologue Quartos Queen quibble Rambures ransom rhyme Richard Richard II scene Scroop sense Shakespeare soldiers soul speak speech stress sword syllables tell Tempest term thee things thou thought Twelfth Night unto verb Williams word
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Page 182 - But these are all lies : men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Page 40 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. — And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture : let us swear That you are worth your breeding ; which I doubt not, For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Page 76 - God's will ! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; It yearns me not if men my garments wear ; Such outward things dwell not in my desires : But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Page 40 - O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Page 14 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion ; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience : for so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Page 6 - Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences...
Page 61 - Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's umber'd face : Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear ; and from the tents, The armourers, accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.
Page 4 - O pardon ! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million, And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
Page 182 - And thou oppos'd, being of no woman born, Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield : lay on, Macduff ; And damn'd be him that first cries,
Page 96 - Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry.