The Life and Death of King Richard II |
Contents
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The Second Quarto 1598 | 361 |
The Fourth Quarto 1608 | 368 |
The Fifth Quarto 1615 | 376 |
The Date of Composition | 393 |
Dramatic Time | 401 |
Holinshed | 407 |
B Comments on Shakespeares | 502 |
The Chief Influences on the Play | 518 |
The Characters | 541 |
Bolingbroke | 553 |
F Mowbray | 559 |
Elizabeth Essex and Richard II | 576 |
LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED | 588 |
INDEX | 611 |
Créton | 462 |
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ABBOTT apud Cam Aumerle Bagot Bolingbroke Bullingbrooke Capell Castle CHAMBERS character chronicles CLARENDON Coll Collier compares copy crown death DEIGHTON dramatic duke of Hereford duke of Norfolke duke of Yorke Dyce Earl edition editors Edward Edward II England Enter Essex Exeunt Exton F₁ F₁ et seq F₂ FfQ6 Folio Froissart Gaunt hath haue heauen Henry Henry IV HERFORD Holinshed John King Richard Ktly kyng liue London Lord MALONE Mowbray muſt Neil NEWBOLT noble Norfolke Northumberland passage is quoted Percy play POLLARD Pope printed Q₁ Q₁ et cet Q₂ QqFf quarto Queen Rann reading REYHER Richard the Second Rlfe says scene Seymour conj Shakespeare ſhall Sing speech Steev thee Theob thou tragedy Traïson Varr Vaughan conj VERITY Vnckle vnto vols vpon Warb Watt Wils WILSON Woodstock words
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Page 567 - To OUR ENGLISH TERENCE, Mr. WILL. SHAKESPEARE. " Some say, good Will., which I, in sport, do sing, Hadst thou not played some kingly parts in sport, Thou had'st been a companion for a king, And been a king among the meaner sort.
Page 105 - ... this dear, dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it), Like to a tenement, or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Page xxii - Family Shakspeare : In which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Page 100 - I have not seen a dapper Jack so brisk : He wears a short Italian hooded cloak, Larded with pearl, and in his Tuscan cap A jewel of more value than the crown.
Page 541 - To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much.
Page 198 - All murder'd— for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks...
Page 286 - But not of kings. The forest deer, being struck, Runs to an herb that closeth up the wounds: But when the imperial lion's flesh is gor'd, He rends and tears it with his wrathful paw, [And], highly scorning that the lowly earth Should drink his blood, mounts up to the air: And so it fares with me, whose dauntless mind Th...
Page 66 - I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Page 576 - I am bold to send to knowe whether Teusdaie <Dec. 9) may be anie more in your grace to visit poore Channon rowe where as late as it shal please you a gate for your supper shal be open: & K. Richard present him selfe to your vewe.