Histories, Vol. 2: Volume 2; Introduction by Tony TannerKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1994 - 778 頁 William Shakespeare arrived at his splendid maturity as an artist in his second cycle of history plays. With their superb battle scenes; their magnificent major and minor characters; their stories of ambition, usurpation, guilt, and redemption; and their profound ideas about the social order, these plays represent the Elizabethan historical drama in its full glory. And thanks to parts one and two of Henry IV our literature is graced—in the figure of the dissolute and boastful knight Sir John Falstaff—with one of the greatest comic creations in the history of the stage. |
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... Enter the Travelers . TRAVELER Come , neighbor . The boy shall lead our horses down the hill ; we'll walk afoot awhile and ease our legs . THIEVES Stand ! TRAVELER Jesus bless us ! FALSTAFF Strike ! Down with them ! Cut the villains ...
... Enter our gates , dispose of us and ours , For we no longer are defensible . KING Open your gates . Come , uncle Exeter , Go you and enter Harfleur ; there remain And fortify it strongly ' gainst the French . Use mercy to them all . For ...
... Enter Keeper . KEEPER Yes , my lord , 5 But yet I cannot help you . CRANMER Why ? KEEPER Your Grace must wait till you be called for . CRANMER Enter Doctor Butts . So. BUTTS [ Aside ] This is a piece of malice . I am glad I came this ...