This Sceptred Isle: Shakespeare's Message for England at War |
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... king's son , the Dauphin , remembering Henry's riotous youth , and thinking him fit only for sport , answers with a gift of tennis - balls . A very similar mistake has been made in our time . How should we answer ? This is Shakespeare's ...
... king's son , the Dauphin , remembering Henry's riotous youth , and thinking him fit only for sport , answers with a gift of tennis - balls . A very similar mistake has been made in our time . How should we answer ? This is Shakespeare's ...
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... king of Scotland , in order to gain th throne for himself . He is , as it were , half - mesmerized b the horror of what he means to do , but , though he know himself condemned by all rules of man and God , accor plishes the crime . It ...
... king of Scotland , in order to gain th throne for himself . He is , as it were , half - mesmerized b the horror of what he means to do , but , though he know himself condemned by all rules of man and God , accor plishes the crime . It ...
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... king in Mac- beth . In Henry VIII we watch a king - not at all the ' bluff King Hal ' of a later imagination - surrounded by plots and intrigues . The Duke of Buckingham , Cardinal Wolsey , and his own , divorced , Queen Katharine are ...
... king in Mac- beth . In Henry VIII we watch a king - not at all the ' bluff King Hal ' of a later imagination - surrounded by plots and intrigues . The Duke of Buckingham , Cardinal Wolsey , and his own , divorced , Queen Katharine are ...
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