Henry IV Part TwoPenguin UK, 2005 M04 7 - 352 pages 'This, of the history plays, is The Tragedy ... the most lyrical Shakespeare ever wrote' Simon Schama |
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... hold this quarrel up Whiles England shall have generation. (IV.2.47–9) 'Success of mischief' to the end of time: that is the nightmare prospect. There is more than one kind of story being told in Henry IV, Part II. There is the story of ...
... hold for the first twothirds of the play, until Act IV, scenes 4 and 5. In fact it can seem more ominous than this: because the play seems to have forgotten the 'success' that this story made in its predecessor, the effect is of ...
... not perpetuate civil strife by punishing them. The King will see the advantages of an amnesty, So that this land, like an offensive wife That hath enraged him on to offer strokes, As he is striking, holds his infant up, And hangs.
William Shakespeare. As he is striking, holds his infant up, And hangs resolved correction in the arm That was upreared to execution. (IV.1.208–12) The infant is being used by the wife and mother as a hostage to 'hang' – that is, suspend ...
... hold life in: Th'incessant care and labour of his mind Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in So thin that ... hold of raggèd stone', as Rumour calls it (Induction, 35), where we first met the 'craftysick' Northumberland (37) ...