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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第 1 到 3 筆結果,共 64 筆
... dead in look , so woebegone , Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night , And would have told him half his Troy was burnt . But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it . This thou wouldst say ...
... dead , Not he which says the dead is not alive . Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office , and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell , Rememb'red tolling a departing friend . LORD BARDOLPH I cannot think ...
... Dead , sir . 25 30 35 40 45 SHALLOW Jesu , Jesu , dead ! ' A drew a good bow , and dead ! ' A shot a fine shoot . John a Gaunt loved him well and betted much money on his head . Dead ! ' A would have clapped i ' th ' clout at twelve ...