William Shakespeare

The Second Part of King Henry IV

Herausgeber: 1stworld Library; 1stworld Library, Library

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Produktbeschreibung

RUMOUR. Open your ears; for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth. Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. I speak of peace while covert emnity, Under the smile of safety, wounds the world; And who but Rumour, who but only I, Make fearful musters and prepar'd defence, Whiles the big year, swoln with some other grief, Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war, And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, And of so easy and so plain a stop

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: 1st World Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 162g
• ISBN-13: 9781421813479
• ISBN-10: 1421813475
• Artikelnr.: 21079734

Autorenporträt

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Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations and conventions
Introduction: Publication and date
Unconformities
The sources and The Famous Victories
The Henriad as remake
Rewriting the remake
The Morality structure
The comedy of humours
City and country comedy
Language
History
Psychodrama
Time and disease
Part Two on the stage
Recent stage, film and critical interpretations by Adam Hansen
Note on the text
List of characters
THE PLAY
Textual analysis
Appendixes: 1. Shakespeare's use of Holinshed
2. Some historical and literary sources
3. The Famous Victories
4. Tarlton and the Lord Chief Justice
Reading list.