The Second Part of King Henry IVCambridge University Press, 2007 M05 3 The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition retains Giorgio Melchiori's text of Shakespeare's The Second Part of King Henry IV. Melchiori argues that the play forms an unplanned sequel to the First Part, itself a 'remake' of an old, non-Shakespearean play. In the Second Part, Shakespeare deliberately exploits Falstaff's popular appeal and the resulting rich humour adds a comic dimension to the play, rendering it a unique blend of history, morality play and comedy. Among modern editions, Melchiori's is the one most firmly based on the quarto. This second edition includes a new section by Adam Hansen on recent stage, film and critical interpretations. |
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... , film and critical interpretations, by Adam Hansen Note on the text List of characters THE PLAY Induction Act I Scene i Scene ii Scene iii Act II Scene i Scene ii Scene iii Scene iv Act III Scene i Scene ii Act IV Scene i Scene ii.
... , film and critical interpretations, by Adam Hansen Note on the text List of characters THE PLAY Induction Act I Scene i Scene ii Scene iii Act II Scene i Scene ii Scene iii Scene iv Act III Scene i Scene ii Act IV Scene i Scene ii.
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... characters to support the central figure responsible for the success of the original play, the parallelism in structure with the 'parent' production, and even the explicit promise at the end of further instalments: 'our humble author ...
... characters to support the central figure responsible for the success of the original play, the parallelism in structure with the 'parent' production, and even the explicit promise at the end of further instalments: 'our humble author ...
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... character of Justice Silence8 is evidence that Part Two was well known to London audiences before that date. On the other hand, the fact that Part One was registered and published, as we saw, in 1598 as a play complete in itself, with ...
... character of Justice Silence8 is evidence that Part Two was well known to London audiences before that date. On the other hand, the fact that Part One was registered and published, as we saw, in 1598 as a play complete in itself, with ...
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... characters with practically the same name: Bardolph, an 'irregular humorist' already figuring as one of Falstaff's followers in Part One, and the 'new' historical character of Lord Bardolph out of Holinshed's Chronicles. The question is ...
... characters with practically the same name: Bardolph, an 'irregular humorist' already figuring as one of Falstaff's followers in Part One, and the 'new' historical character of Lord Bardolph out of Holinshed's Chronicles. The question is ...
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... character of the Braggart in John Eliot's Ortho-epia Gallica (1593) when devising the language of Pistol, while the Hostess's peculiar interjections are strictly modelled on those reported of Lady More in Sir Thomas More's biography ...
... character of the Braggart in John Eliot's Ortho-epia Gallica (1593) when devising the language of Pistol, while the Hostess's peculiar interjections are strictly modelled on those reported of Lady More in Sir Thomas More's biography ...
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