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... interest in war is plunder and enjoyment . We see them for what they are when Pistol in his farewell to London exhorts them : Yoke - fellows in arms , Let us to France , like horse - leeches , my boys , To suck , to suck , the very ...
... interest in war is plunder and enjoyment . We see them for what they are when Pistol in his farewell to London exhorts them : Yoke - fellows in arms , Let us to France , like horse - leeches , my boys , To suck , to suck , the very ...
Page 81
... interest be- cause of the power of individual episodes and because of the overall picture of political disorder - eventually a civil war - that they present . Part One covers roughly twenty years of Henry VI's reign , from the death of ...
... interest be- cause of the power of individual episodes and because of the overall picture of political disorder - eventually a civil war - that they present . Part One covers roughly twenty years of Henry VI's reign , from the death of ...
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... interest on the part of audiences . Shakespeare has become big business at the Stratfords and at Ashland . Though it can be noticed that the attention of spectators frequently wanders and that entr'acte conversations sometimes express ...
... interest on the part of audiences . Shakespeare has become big business at the Stratfords and at Ashland . Though it can be noticed that the attention of spectators frequently wanders and that entr'acte conversations sometimes express ...
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