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Page 12
... interest of en- tertainment or propaganda , and the crushing of interest by the mere conscientious accumulation of factual detail . The best history plays will be plausible and exciting - but they will almost necessarily be ...
... interest of en- tertainment or propaganda , and the crushing of interest by the mere conscientious accumulation of factual detail . The best history plays will be plausible and exciting - but they will almost necessarily be ...
Page 73
... interest of picturesque scenes , it is true , but also , and more pro- foundly , by an instinct for the movement of English po- litical tradition from the time of the Norman conquest on . This political instinct is perhaps the subtlest ...
... interest of picturesque scenes , it is true , but also , and more pro- foundly , by an instinct for the movement of English po- litical tradition from the time of the Norman conquest on . This political instinct is perhaps the subtlest ...
Page 203
... interest in the classics , but it was also a safeguard against the risk of impolitic contemporary applications , such as could be derived , to his danger , even from his portrayal of so remote a reign as that of Richard II . Pagan ...
... interest in the classics , but it was also a safeguard against the risk of impolitic contemporary applications , such as could be derived , to his danger , even from his portrayal of so remote a reign as that of Richard II . Pagan ...
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accept achieve action Aeschylus already appears authority Bastard battle become begins Brutus Caesar Cassius character complex concerned contrast Coriolanus course crown death earlier effective Elizabethan England English established fact fails Falstaff father favor fear feels figure finally forces France French further give Gloucester hand hath head heart Henry Henry's history play Hotspur human initiative interest issues Joan John John's judgment kind king king's land later less lines live look Lord Margaret means medieval merely mind moral murder nature never once opening peace personality political present Prince proves Providence queen reason recognize reflects remains response result rhetoric Richard Richard III role scene seems sense Shakespeare shows situation soliloquy speech spirit success Suffolk suggests thee theme thou throne tion true turn ultimate values virtue York