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... important , is mainly concerned with wars in France , Talbot playing the role of national hero and less than justice being done to Joan of Arc . Parts II and III are more important . These dramatise the Wars of the Roses , staging ...
... important , is mainly concerned with wars in France , Talbot playing the role of national hero and less than justice being done to Joan of Arc . Parts II and III are more important . These dramatise the Wars of the Roses , staging ...
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... important to Shakespeare is the unity , which is , also , the sincerity , of England ; and how his history cycle shows the turmoils of civil war leading towards Tudor supremacy . Now Lear is king of Britain ; and he is old . In old age ...
... important to Shakespeare is the unity , which is , also , the sincerity , of England ; and how his history cycle shows the turmoils of civil war leading towards Tudor supremacy . Now Lear is king of Britain ; and he is old . In old age ...
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... important significances . The persons are all more than themselves : they are instruments , as it were , in the creation of that England from which Shakespeare's work flowers . The King , however , is not himself a very impressive man ...
... important significances . The persons are all more than themselves : they are instruments , as it were , in the creation of that England from which Shakespeare's work flowers . The King , however , is not himself a very impressive man ...
Contents
OUR ENGLISH HERITAGE | 1 |
ROSES AT WAR | 4 |
SAINT GEORGE FOR ENGLAND | 12 |
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