Henry VPenguin UK, 25.2.2010 - 336 sivua 'At one and the same time the greatest of all works of English patriotism and a searing critique of warfare' Jonathan Bate |
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... Pistol – just the sort of 'brawl ridiculous' (IV.Chorus.51) from which the Chorus seeks to distract us with stirring words. In marked contrast to Henry IV, Part I, where he shows courage by fulfilling his pledge to kill the intrepid ...
... Pistol. Although The Chronicle History (known as the first Quarto) was the only version printed in Shakespeare's lifetime, his name is notably absent from its title page, the only one of five Shakespeare plays printed that year not to ...
... Pistol's bombastic speeches parody the 'high astounding terms' of Marlowe's Scythian shepherd (Part One, Prologue, l. 5); Henry's threatening speech at Harfleur recalls the threat of total war levelled by Tamburlaine at the siege of ...
... Pistol's mispronunciation of an Irish ballad refrain, 'Calen o custure me! ' (IV.4.4); the anachronistic greeting, 'brother Ireland', Isabel addresses to Henry (see note to V.2.12); and Henry's equally anachronistic pledge to Katherine ...
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