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... play up to the time of Shake- speare's association with the London theaters , yet these provide , in themselves , only a partial sense of the charac- ter of the genre and its potential . The word " history " was used very loosely as a ...
... play up to the time of Shake- speare's association with the London theaters , yet these provide , in themselves , only a partial sense of the charac- ter of the genre and its potential . The word " history " was used very loosely as a ...
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... played a part . Since then , the history play has not flourished in Elizabethan Eng- land alone ; Schiller , Ibsen , Strindberg , Shaw , and Brecht -to name only a few authors - have all found the force of detailed history an invaluable ...
... played a part . Since then , the history play has not flourished in Elizabethan Eng- land alone ; Schiller , Ibsen , Strindberg , Shaw , and Brecht -to name only a few authors - have all found the force of detailed history an invaluable ...
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... play can properly be called a history play at all ; once this question is raised , it becomes clear that the play gains enormously from consideration as a study in an older form , as the morality play that Richard's occasional asides ...
... play can properly be called a history play at all ; once this question is raised , it becomes clear that the play gains enormously from consideration as a study in an older form , as the morality play that Richard's occasional asides ...
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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