The Tragedy of Richard III, with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field |
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... poet . 38. Anne , Widow of Edward , Prince of Wales ] GAIRDNER : The Earl of Warwick's younger daughter , Anne , had been betrothed to the son of Henry VI . It does not appear that she was married to him , although she is often spoken ...
... poet . 38. Anne , Widow of Edward , Prince of Wales ] GAIRDNER : The Earl of Warwick's younger daughter , Anne , had been betrothed to the son of Henry VI . It does not appear that she was married to him , although she is often spoken ...
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... poet's fancy ; his conversation with the murderers is power- fully agitating ; but the earlier crimes of Clarence merited death , although not from his brother's hand . The most innocent and unspotted sacrifices are the two princes : we ...
... poet's fancy ; his conversation with the murderers is power- fully agitating ; but the earlier crimes of Clarence merited death , although not from his brother's hand . The most innocent and unspotted sacrifices are the two princes : we ...
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... poet , the speech is ironical . To have justified or apologised for deformity with serious argument would have been no less ineffectual than a serious charge against beauty . The intention of Shakespeare is not to make us admire the ...
... poet , the speech is ironical . To have justified or apologised for deformity with serious argument would have been no less ineffectual than a serious charge against beauty . The intention of Shakespeare is not to make us admire the ...
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... Poet's workmanship . This opening soliloquy , so startling in its abruptness , and so crammed with poetry and thought , has the effect of duly pre - engaging our minds with the hero's active , fertile , scheming brain . - WARNER ( p ...
... Poet's workmanship . This opening soliloquy , so startling in its abruptness , and so crammed with poetry and thought , has the effect of duly pre - engaging our minds with the hero's active , fertile , scheming brain . - WARNER ( p ...
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... poet might have chosen it in this passage because the Queen spoken of was also an Elizabeth , wife of Edward IV . 100 , 101. Shores Wife ... tongue ] Shakespeare was perhaps indebted to More for this characterisation of Jane Shore ...
... poet might have chosen it in this passage because the Queen spoken of was also an Elizabeth , wife of Edward IV . 100 , 101. Shores Wife ... tongue ] Shakespeare was perhaps indebted to More for this characterisation of Jane Shore ...
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