 | Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett - 1883 - 1070 pages
...Where the subject afforded a wide field for their free inventive powers the work 1 Their titles are : ' The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of York and Lancaster,' and ' The True Tragedy of Richard, Duke of York.' The oldest impressions are dated... | |
 | Robert Greene, George Peele - English drama - 1883 - 652 pages
...Hist, of Jobe by Rob. Green. The opinion that Greene was concerned in the two " histories" entitled The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous houses of Torke and Lancaster, Ac., and The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, &c., is founded on a passage... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 728 pages
...Lord Cromwell," "The Puritan," "A Yorkshire Tragedy;" and several bearing the titles, "The First Point of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster," " The True Tragedie of Richard, Duke of York," "The Arraignment of Paris," "The Merry Devil of Edmonton,"... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 432 pages
...well known that the Second and Third Parts of Henry VI. represent a revision of two older Plays — The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous houses of York and Lancaster (1594) and the True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York (1595) ; but it is not, perhaps,... | |
 | Frederick Gard Fleay - Dramatists, English - 1886 - 408 pages
...F.; the other in Quarto, entered SR I2th March 1594, hereafter called Q. It was published in 1594 as The First part of the Contention betwixt the two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster. This Quarto version is a mangled and probably surreptitious copy of the original... | |
 | Frederick Gard Fleay - Dramatists, English - 1886 - 392 pages
...; the other in Quarto, entered SR 12th March 1594, hereafter called Q. It was published in 1 594 as The First part of the Contention betwixt the two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster. This Quarto version is a mangled and probably surreptitious copy of the original... | |
 | Frederick Gard Fleay - Dramatists, English - 1886 - 420 pages
...; the other in Quarto, entered SR I2th March 1594, hereafter called Q. It was published in 1 594 as The First part of the Contention betwixt the two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster. This Quarto version is a mangled and probably surreptitious copy of the original... | |
 | Evangeline Maria O'Connor - 1887 - 440 pages
...The facts are drawn from Holinshed. The second and third parts are rewritten from two older plays: "The First Part of the Contention betwixt the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster," etc., and " The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of York and the Death of Good King... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 420 pages
...anonymous plays which were the originals of 2 and 3 Henry VI, the former supposedly being based on The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of York and Lancaster, printed in 1 594, and the latter on The True Tragedy of Richard, Duke of York,... | |
 | Roslyn Lander Knutson - Drama - 1991 - 276 pages
...popularity of his extant Henry VI by writing a sequel which became the two parts subsequently published as The First Part of the Contention betwixt the Two Famous Houses of Torke and Lancaster and The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of Torke. ^ In a normal year, presumably,... | |
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