51. What previous communistic uprising does Shakespeare utilize in combination with the actual Cade episode and for what special dramatic effect? 52. What passage has the poet taken almost verbatim from Holinshed's Chronicle and put in the mouths of Cade and his followers? What outrages of the previous insurrection are recalled in the utilization in this Cade episode of denunciation of "ink horn men," lawyers, and all learned people? 53. What probably was the true nature of the Cade Rebellion? 54. How does the first part of scene x operate as a relief or dramatic pause? ACT V 55. What is the dramatic quality of York's opening speech? 56. What is the historic account of York's return from Ireland, his withdrawal into Wales, and the several events of this part of the episode? 57. What was the original Bedlam to which Clifford refers in scene i? 58. For what in the play's action does the circumstance of Clifford's death at York's hands serve to prepare the way? 59. Compare the rhapsodic pathos of young Clifford's lament over his father's body, with that of Talbot's over his dead son, in Part I. Explain the mythological allusions in young Clifford's final lines. 60. To what has Richard reference in his lines over Somerset's dead body? All the unsigned footnotes in this volume are by the writer of the article to which they are appended. The interpretation of the initials signed to the others is: I. G. = Israel Gollancz, M.A.; H. N. H. Henry Norman Hudson, A.M.; C. H. H.= C. H. Herford, Litt.D. = |