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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... sickness with the king's, is absolutely central to the theatrical and ideological structure of the play as a whole. Now, granting that 3.1 was introduced at that point of the play as an afterthought, was the scene newly written for the ...
... sickness with the king's, is absolutely central to the theatrical and ideological structure of the play as a whole. Now, granting that 3.1 was introduced at that point of the play as an afterthought, was the scene newly written for the ...
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... sick king, and, developing a mere hint in Daniel's Civile Wars, anticipated the wild prince's reformation by his triumph at Shrewsbury.37 The emphasis placed on the youthful gallantry of Hotspur makes the prince's triumph greater. The ...
... sick king, and, developing a mere hint in Daniel's Civile Wars, anticipated the wild prince's reformation by his triumph at Shrewsbury.37 The emphasis placed on the youthful gallantry of Hotspur makes the prince's triumph greater. The ...
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... sick condition, reflected in the state of the country. The scene, filling a separate leaf in the foul papers, was at first omitted in the rewriting, but later introduced in Part Two as 3.1. This explains the first of the unconforrnities ...
... sick condition, reflected in the state of the country. The scene, filling a separate leaf in the foul papers, was at first omitted in the rewriting, but later introduced in Part Two as 3.1. This explains the first of the unconforrnities ...
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... sick', Prince Hal's policy in 2.4 is that of the disguised ruler spying on the behaviour of his subjects, finding out the opinion they have of him. And after Prince John's supreme act of policy in order to conquer the rebels, the king ...
... sick', Prince Hal's policy in 2.4 is that of the disguised ruler spying on the behaviour of his subjects, finding out the opinion they have of him. And after Prince John's supreme act of policy in order to conquer the rebels, the king ...
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... sick king was presented on the stage in a revealing soliloquy reflecting the country's state as well as his own, and ... sick'). Emblematically, Falstaff's only part in all this is that of conveying not to the prince but to the audience ...
... sick king was presented on the stage in a revealing soliloquy reflecting the country's state as well as his own, and ... sick'). Emblematically, Falstaff's only part in all this is that of conveying not to the prince but to the audience ...
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