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... sense of the charac- ter of the genre and its potential . The word " history " was used very loosely as a way to describe plays when it first appeared in the court Revels Accounts in 1571. At that time , it was usually used in the sense ...
... sense of the charac- ter of the genre and its potential . The word " history " was used very loosely as a way to describe plays when it first appeared in the court Revels Accounts in 1571. At that time , it was usually used in the sense ...
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... sense of hierarchy on which it depended a sense of cosmic order that the Elizabethans recalled , with understandable nostalgia . For that meta- physical sanction of authority on which Richard II con- fidently depended , and which Henry ...
... sense of hierarchy on which it depended a sense of cosmic order that the Elizabethans recalled , with understandable nostalgia . For that meta- physical sanction of authority on which Richard II con- fidently depended , and which Henry ...
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... sense . It is in this spirit of integrity that he reverses the tribunes ' sentence of exile in the paradoxi- cal assertion to the mob , " I banish you " ( III.iii.123 ) . In a very definite sense , he is the true spirit of Rome , and ...
... sense . It is in this spirit of integrity that he reverses the tribunes ' sentence of exile in the paradoxi- cal assertion to the mob , " I banish you " ( III.iii.123 ) . In a very definite sense , he is the true spirit of Rome , and ...
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