The Second Part of King Henry IVThe 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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... prince's companions, replace that of Sir John Russell (or Rossill) with Bardolph,'3 if he already expected to introduce the historical Lord Bardolph in the Second Part? 4. The presence in the quarto of the speech heading Old. at 1.2.96 ...
... prince's companions, replace that of Sir John Russell (or Rossill) with Bardolph,'3 if he already expected to introduce the historical Lord Bardolph in the Second Part? 4. The presence in the quarto of the speech heading Old. at 1.2.96 ...
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... Bardolph.31 It is also agreed that the name changes in the final version were occasioned by the protest of the ... Lord Cobham, took over from Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, the patron of Shakespeare's company who had just died, the office ...
... Bardolph.31 It is also agreed that the name changes in the final version were occasioned by the protest of the ... Lord Cobham, took over from Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, the patron of Shakespeare's company who had just died, the office ...
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... Bardolph was a striking name found in the chronicles but much less ... Lord Chief Justice. 4. By introducing the 'play extempore' (Part One 2.4.280 ... Lord Chief Justice. If instead the new play — presented simply as Henry IV and not as ...
... Bardolph was a striking name found in the chronicles but much less ... Lord Chief Justice. 4. By introducing the 'play extempore' (Part One 2.4.280 ... Lord Chief Justice. If instead the new play — presented simply as Henry IV and not as ...
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... Bardolph for Russell, finding it in those pages of Holinshed that he did not mean to utilise, in the same way as he had earlier found Russell's name in another unused passage of the chronicles ... Lord Bardolph's first entrance right at the.
... Bardolph for Russell, finding it in those pages of Holinshed that he did not mean to utilise, in the same way as he had earlier found Russell's name in another unused passage of the chronicles ... Lord Bardolph's first entrance right at the.
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... Lord Bardolph. But the really striking feature, in this case, is Shakespeare's deliberate choice, to open his sequel to the history of Henry IV, of a figure that would immediately remind the audience of the popular Moralities.48 John ...
... Lord Bardolph. But the really striking feature, in this case, is Shakespeare's deliberate choice, to open his sequel to the history of Henry IV, of a figure that would immediately remind the audience of the popular Moralities.48 John ...
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