This Sceptred Isle: Shakespeare's Message for England at War |
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... John of Gaunt's prophetic utterance and so subtly implied also by the praise accorded the powers of the English king in Mac- beth . In Henry VIII we watch a king - not at all the ' bluff King Hal ' of a later imagination - surrounded by ...
... John of Gaunt's prophetic utterance and so subtly implied also by the praise accorded the powers of the English king in Mac- beth . In Henry VIII we watch a king - not at all the ' bluff King Hal ' of a later imagination - surrounded by ...
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... John of Gaunt ? It has as one would expect , at the end ; at the very end of Shake- speare's last play . For , at the christening ceremony of the child Elizabeth , the gentle Cranmer , so humble compared with the other great persons ...
... John of Gaunt ? It has as one would expect , at the end ; at the very end of Shake- speare's last play . For , at the christening ceremony of the child Elizabeth , the gentle Cranmer , so humble compared with the other great persons ...
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... John of Gaunt's lines in Richard II : This royal throne of kings , this sceptred isle , This earth of majesty , this seat of Mars ... " This sceptred isle ' : the phrase goes deeper than you might think , suggesting a royal ...
... John of Gaunt's lines in Richard II : This royal throne of kings , this sceptred isle , This earth of majesty , this seat of Mars ... " This sceptred isle ' : the phrase goes deeper than you might think , suggesting a royal ...
Common terms and phrases
1940 Reprinted Agincourt Armada armies awake Banquo Banquo's descendants BASIL BLACKWELL battle bless blesséd blood Bolingbroke Britain call'd condemnation Coriolanus crack of doom Cranmer's prophecy Crispian Cromwell crown deeply destiny doth enemies England must oppose England should act English king eyes Falstaff Farewell fear feeling fight Fortinbras France gentle glory God's HASTINGS hath head heaven Henry IV Henry VI Henry VIII holy honour John of Gaunt knows last play Macbeth MENENIUS mercy Message for ENGLAND mother murders nobility peace perilous narrow ocean Perjury pity princes prophetic Queen realms under James religious Richard Richard II rouse royal sceptred isle Scotland sense of England's Shake Shakespeare shows SHAKESPEARIAN SICINIUS sleep soul Spanish Armada speaks speare's last speech sword tell the Dauphin thee thine Timon to-day truth two-fold balls tyrant union of realms victory voice of England whilst WILSON KNIGHT wins Wolsey words