The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Histories. TragediesC. Knight, 1843 |
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... action , they were essentially one great drama . They were written , it is highly probable , almost consecutively ; for not only does the external evidence show that they were given to the world during the three last years of the ...
... action , they were essentially one great drama . They were written , it is highly probable , almost consecutively ; for not only does the external evidence show that they were given to the world during the three last years of the ...
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... action in these plays were the same , but with a different development of character , there would be reasonable grounds for believing that the author of the Second and Third Parts had , with little difficulty , continued the action of ...
... action in these plays were the same , but with a different development of character , there would be reasonable grounds for believing that the author of the Second and Third Parts had , with little difficulty , continued the action of ...
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... action . The prin- ciple upon which he worked rendered it essentially a drama to be continued . Taken in itself it is a drama without a catastrophe . So , it may be said , is Shakspere's Henry V .; ' and we add that it is intentionally ...
... action . The prin- ciple upon which he worked rendered it essentially a drama to be continued . Taken in itself it is a drama without a catastrophe . So , it may be said , is Shakspere's Henry V .; ' and we add that it is intentionally ...
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... action of The First Part of Henry VI . ' which occur in the old copies of the succeeding plays . 6 In the first scene of The First Part of the Contention ' York thus exclaims : - : - " York . Anjou and Maine both given unto the French ...
... action of The First Part of Henry VI . ' which occur in the old copies of the succeeding plays . 6 In the first scene of The First Part of the Contention ' York thus exclaims : - : - " York . Anjou and Maine both given unto the French ...
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... action , but of the identity of characterisation and of manner : - FIRST PART OF HENRY VI . , Act V. , Scene 3 . " Suf . Be what thou wilt , thou art my prisoner . [ Gazes on her . O fairest beauty , do not fear , nor fly ; For I will ...
... action , but of the identity of characterisation and of manner : - FIRST PART OF HENRY VI . , Act V. , Scene 3 . " Suf . Be what thou wilt , thou art my prisoner . [ Gazes on her . O fairest beauty , do not fear , nor fly ; For I will ...
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