The Tragedy of Richard III, with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth FieldClassic Books Company, 2001 - 500 pages |
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... character of the defeated tyrant should be blackened as much as possible , in order to flatter and extol the conqueror ? The sympathy of all classes was deeply Lancastrian ; hence the number of plays and poems on the sub- ject of ...
... character of the defeated tyrant should be blackened as much as possible , in order to flatter and extol the conqueror ? The sympathy of all classes was deeply Lancastrian ; hence the number of plays and poems on the sub- ject of ...
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... character of Buckingham , as drawn by Shakespeare , ' a mere puppet of Richard with whose cleverness Buckingham's is placed in direct contrast ; somewhat the same relation as in the characters of Wagner and Faust . Richard is the type ...
... character of Buckingham , as drawn by Shakespeare , ' a mere puppet of Richard with whose cleverness Buckingham's is placed in direct contrast ; somewhat the same relation as in the characters of Wagner and Faust . Richard is the type ...
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... character was Sir Robert Howard , a zealous Lancastrian , who married Margaret Mowbray , eldest daughter of the banished Duke of Norfolk in King Richard II . The male line of the ancient Mowbrays having become extinct in 1475 , Richard ...
... character was Sir Robert Howard , a zealous Lancastrian , who married Margaret Mowbray , eldest daughter of the banished Duke of Norfolk in King Richard II . The male line of the ancient Mowbrays having become extinct in 1475 , Richard ...
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... character , her charm , and well - chosen speech . [ Oechelhauser has , perhaps , been herein slightly misled by the chroniclers , Hall and Holinshed , who systematically , and purposely , lightened the characters of all those in ...
... character , her charm , and well - chosen speech . [ Oechelhauser has , perhaps , been herein slightly misled by the chroniclers , Hall and Holinshed , who systematically , and purposely , lightened the characters of all those in ...
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... character of eloquence , pertinacity , clear - sightedness , and decision . - HUDSON ( Introd . , p . 36 ) : As in the earlier plays Richard supplies a forecast of the style of character which the pro- ceedings then on foot were likely ...
... character of eloquence , pertinacity , clear - sightedness , and decision . - HUDSON ( Introd . , p . 36 ) : As in the earlier plays Richard supplies a forecast of the style of character which the pro- ceedings then on foot were likely ...
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Page 329 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
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Page 21 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me!