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... All reflect his reading, often in close detail. Holinshed's Chronicles (1577, revised 1587), a great compendium of English, Scottish and Irish history, provided material for his English history plays. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and.
... All reflect his reading, often in close detail. Holinshed's Chronicles (1577, revised 1587), a great compendium of English, Scottish and Irish history, provided material for his English history plays. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and.
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William Shakespeare. English history plays. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by the Greek writer Plutarch, finely translated into English from the French by Sir Thomas North in 1579, provided much of the narrative material, and ...
William Shakespeare. English history plays. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by the Greek writer Plutarch, finely translated into English from the French by Sir Thomas North in 1579, provided much of the narrative material, and ...
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... live when he finds him alone and praying; although that may appear over-scrupulous it is not an unreasonable thing to do, if the idea is to punish the King rather than send him to heaven. When someone is skulking behind the arras in ...
... live when he finds him alone and praying; although that may appear over-scrupulous it is not an unreasonable thing to do, if the idea is to punish the King rather than send him to heaven. When someone is skulking behind the arras in ...
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... live In the rank sweat of an enseamèd bed, Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty – (III.4.92–5) This may sound obsessive, but Gertrude is made to acknowledge its justice. Again, when Hamlet looks at Yorick's ...
... live In the rank sweat of an enseamèd bed, Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty – (III.4.92–5) This may sound obsessive, but Gertrude is made to acknowledge its justice. Again, when Hamlet looks at Yorick's ...
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