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Page vii
... True Tragedy ( and forming the second part of The Whole Contention ) which was first printed in 1595 with this title : The true tragedie of Richard | Duke of Yorke , and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt , with the whole contention ...
... True Tragedy ( and forming the second part of The Whole Contention ) which was first printed in 1595 with this title : The true tragedie of Richard | Duke of Yorke , and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt , with the whole contention ...
Page viii
... True Tragedy is very much superior to The Contention . It contains much less rubbish and many more jewels . So , as we have seen , when Shakespeare came to write Parts II . and III . , he adopted or altered for the former 1,479 of its ...
... True Tragedy is very much superior to The Contention . It contains much less rubbish and many more jewels . So , as we have seen , when Shakespeare came to write Parts II . and III . , he adopted or altered for the former 1,479 of its ...
Page ix
... True Tragedy I see a little of Marlowe , less of Greene , more of Peele and much more of Shakespeare . And in the final play there is yet more of Shakespeare and yet less of the others . Whatever may have been the original plan , the ...
... True Tragedy I see a little of Marlowe , less of Greene , more of Peele and much more of Shakespeare . And in the final play there is yet more of Shakespeare and yet less of the others . Whatever may have been the original plan , the ...
Page xiv
... True Tragedy ( Q ) that is omitted in 3 Henry VI . in this scene . Some interesting points occur : the old " godsforbot ( 25 ) is deleted . Note The Spanish Tragedy passage at 33- 35 , and the standard phrase of “ in Christendom " ( 83 ) ...
... True Tragedy ( Q ) that is omitted in 3 Henry VI . in this scene . Some interesting points occur : the old " godsforbot ( 25 ) is deleted . Note The Spanish Tragedy passage at 33- 35 , and the standard phrase of “ in Christendom " ( 83 ) ...
Page xix
... True Tragedy , our Q. The scene is reduced from 122 lines to 90 but about 15 are new , of which Margaret gets ten , including two startling ones ( 7-8 ) about " sweet Jerusalem , " and another ( 53 ) , " They that stabbed Cæsar ...
... True Tragedy , our Q. The scene is reduced from 122 lines to 90 but about 15 are new , of which Margaret gets ten , including two startling ones ( 7-8 ) about " sweet Jerusalem , " and another ( 53 ) , " They that stabbed Cæsar ...
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Page 66 - Would I were dead! if God's good will were so; For what is in this world but grief and woe? O God! methinks, it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 95 - I can add colours to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Page 165 - The bird that hath been limed in a bush, With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush : And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird, Have now the fatal object in my eye, Where my poor young was lim'd, was caught, and kill'd.