The First Part of the History of King Henry the Fourth |
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... Elizabethan stage in all other respects derives from its complex origins . The first and most ancient forerunner of the Elizabethan play is the pagan festival , going back to classical times , which survived in a submerged form ...
... Elizabethan stage in all other respects derives from its complex origins . The first and most ancient forerunner of the Elizabethan play is the pagan festival , going back to classical times , which survived in a submerged form ...
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... Elizabethan drama of an academic kind , it was modeled on classical drama , and par- ticularly on the plays of Seneca . Many of the characteristics of Senecan tragedy - murders , ghosts , madness , revenge - reappear in many Elizabethan ...
... Elizabethan drama of an academic kind , it was modeled on classical drama , and par- ticularly on the plays of Seneca . Many of the characteristics of Senecan tragedy - murders , ghosts , madness , revenge - reappear in many Elizabethan ...
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... Elizabethan vocabulary was extremely adventurous . Borrowings from Latin and Greek , as well as from such fashionable modern lan- guages as French and Italian , were encouraged by the contemporary delight in the New Learning of the ...
... Elizabethan vocabulary was extremely adventurous . Borrowings from Latin and Greek , as well as from such fashionable modern lan- guages as French and Italian , were encouraged by the contemporary delight in the New Learning of the ...
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Anon arms art thou BARDOLPH battle blood Bolingbroke called CARRIER cousin coward Derick Devil dost doth Douglas Duke E. K. Chambers Earl of March Eastcheap edition Elizabeth Elizabethan England English Enter HOTSPUR Exeunt Exit faith father fear Francis GADSHILL give grace Hal's hanged Harry Harry Percy hath head hear Henry IV Henry VI Holinshed honour horse HOSTESS Jack JOHN OF LANCASTER Kate King Henry King's LADY PERCY London lord means modern night noble Northumberland Oldcastle Owen Glendower performed PETO plague play POINS PRINCE FALSTAFF Prince of Wales prisoners prithee quarto rascal Richard Richard II rogue sack scene Scot Shakespeare Shrewsbury Sir John SIR MICHAEL speak sweet sword tell theater thee thou art thou hast Tudor VERNON villainous vols Welsh Westmoreland William Shakespeare wilt WORCESTER Zounds