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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... land of such dear souls , this dear dear land- Dear for her reputation through the world— Is now leased out - I die pronouncing it— Like to a tenement or pelting farm . 60 England , bound in with the triumphant sea , Whose rocky shore ...
... land by lease ; But for thy world enjoying but this land Is it not more than shame to shame it so ? Landlord of England art thou now , not king ; Thy state of law is bondslave to the law , And thou- RICHARD [ interrupting ] A lunatic ...
... land . " Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze To be the realm of France , and Pharamond The founder of this law and female bar . Yet their own authors faithfully affirm That the land Salique is in Germany , Between the floods of ...