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The spectacle of the severed head is so common a feature of Elizabethan and Jacobean history plays that it invites ... Visual representations of severed heads occur in a broad range of history plays , including Thomas Lodge's The Wounds ...
The spectacle of the severed head is so common a feature of Elizabethan and Jacobean history plays that it invites ... Visual representations of severed heads occur in a broad range of history plays , including Thomas Lodge's The Wounds ...
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To Henry , the severed head of the traitor testifies to the intervention of divine justice : The head of Cade ! ... ( 5.1.68-70 ) When the rabble cut off the heads of the king's officers , they have redefined themselves as ...
To Henry , the severed head of the traitor testifies to the intervention of divine justice : The head of Cade ! ... ( 5.1.68-70 ) When the rabble cut off the heads of the king's officers , they have redefined themselves as ...
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In the Quarto , Henry follows his analysis of Cade's visage with an order for the removal of the head , “ Here take it hence ” ( 2025 ) , which suggests that the king has been holding the head himself , and now hands it over to an ...
In the Quarto , Henry follows his analysis of Cade's visage with an order for the removal of the head , “ Here take it hence ” ( 2025 ) , which suggests that the king has been holding the head himself , and now hands it over to an ...
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Contents
Geraldo U de Sousa The Peasants Revolt and the Writing of History in 2 Henry | 105 |
Martha A Kurtz Rethinking Gender and Genre in the History Play | 122 |
Steve Longstaffe The Limits of Modernity in Shakespeares King John | 132 |
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| Title | Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 37 Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Laurie Lanzen Harris |
| Contributor | Gale Research Company |
| Publisher | Gale Research Company, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0787611352, 9780787611354 |
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