This Sceptred Isle: Shakespeare's Message for England at War |
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... troubled and sleepless king . In Shakespeare we read of England's kings , and therefore of England , variously false or true to their own appointed destiny . ( b ) How England should act Many times in our history we have been regarded ...
... troubled and sleepless king . In Shakespeare we read of England's kings , and therefore of England , variously false or true to their own appointed destiny . ( b ) How England should act Many times in our history we have been regarded ...
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... troubled Shakespeare , as it has troubled England . He attacks it again in Coriolanus . Coriolanus , based on a famous Roman story , shows a man so brought up to worship ' honour ' that he can see nothing else in the wide world but that ...
... troubled Shakespeare , as it has troubled England . He attacks it again in Coriolanus . Coriolanus , based on a famous Roman story , shows a man so brought up to worship ' honour ' that he can see nothing else in the wide world but that ...
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... troubled existence on earth directly to the other . In the wider plan and pattern of the world , Shakespeare at the last feels England to be marked out as an example of both religious wisdom and royal strength . The sense of heroic ...
... troubled existence on earth directly to the other . In the wider plan and pattern of the world , Shakespeare at the last feels England to be marked out as an example of both religious wisdom and royal strength . The sense of heroic ...
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Agincourt Armada army awake Banquo BASIL BLACKWELL bless blesséd blood Bolingbroke Britain call'd Cheltenham condemnation Coriolanus crack of doom CRANMER Cranmer's prophecy Crispian Cromwell crown dear deeply destiny doth enemies England must oppose England should act England's royalty English king ERITAS MICHIGAN eyes Falstaff Farewell fear fear'd feeling fight Fortinbras France gentle glory God's HASTINGS hath head heaven Henry IV Henry VI Henry VIII holy honour ISLE SHAKESPEARE'S MESSAGE John of Gaunt's last play Macbeth MENENIUS mercy MESSAGE FOR ENGLAND mock mother murders nobility peace perilous narrow ocean Perjury pity pride princes prophetic realms under James religious Richard II rouse royal SCEPTRED ISLE SHAKESPEARE'S Scotland Shake Shakespeare knows SHAKESPEARIAN SICINIUS sleep soul Spanish Armada speaks speare's last speech stand sword thee thine throne Timon to-day truth tyrant union of realms victory voice of England whilst WILSON KNIGHT wins Wolsey words