King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series, Part 1David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues that the non-historical, comic plot does not simply parody the historical action but by its existence raises questions about the very nature of history. The full and engaging introduction devotes extensive discussion to the play's language, indicating how its insistent economic vocabulary provides texture for the social concerns of the play and focuses attention on the central relationship between value and political authority. |
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... tell me flatly I am no proud jack , like Falstaff , but a Corinthian , a lad of mettle , a good boy - by the Lord ... tell ] telling F 11 no ] not Q4-5 jack ] ( lacke ) 14-15 ' dyeing scarlet ' ] Ard2 ; dying scarlet QF scarlet ' , and ...
... tell me flatly I am no proud jack , like Falstaff , but a Corinthian , a lad of mettle , a good boy - by the Lord ... tell ] telling F 11 no ] not Q4-5 jack ] ( lacke ) 14-15 ' dyeing scarlet ' ] Ard2 ; dying scarlet QF scarlet ' , and ...
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... tell me , Jack , whose fellows are these that come after ? FALSTAFF Mine , Hal , mine . PRINCE I did never see such pitiful rascals . FALSTAFF Tut , tut , good enough to toss ; food for powder , food for powder . They'll fill a pit as ...
... tell me , Jack , whose fellows are these that come after ? FALSTAFF Mine , Hal , mine . PRINCE I did never see such pitiful rascals . FALSTAFF Tut , tut , good enough to toss ; food for powder , food for powder . They'll fill a pit as ...
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... tell us something important about how the play was engaged : less as an organic whole than as a repository of ... telling the thieves of a lodger at his inn with ' 3 hundred marks ' that he carries ' unto the kings exchequer ' . The ...
... tell us something important about how the play was engaged : less as an organic whole than as a repository of ... telling the thieves of a lodger at his inn with ' 3 hundred marks ' that he carries ' unto the kings exchequer ' . The ...
Contents
The sources of 1 Henry IV | 339 |
A note on Shakespeares metrics | 345 |
The play in manuscript | 349 |
Copyright | |
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