背景 发表于 2025-3-23 13:02:12

Life and Background,We know that William Shakespeare was baptised on 26 April 1564. It is assumed that he was born on 23 April, so the greatest English poet and dramatist shares his birthday with the feast day of England’s patron saint, StGeorge.

关心 发表于 2025-3-23 14:55:40

Themes and Issues,To enjoy Shakespeare’s history plays it is necessary to have some idea of the Elizabethan ‘world-picture’, which was very different from our own. We regard the chaotic state of the political world as ‘natural’, whereas to an Elizabethan a dis-ordered war-torn state was definitely ‘everything that seems un-natural’ (Henry V, V.ii.62).

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frivolous 发表于 2025-3-24 14:22:53

,Shakespeare’s English Histories,e so-called Wars of the Roses, when members of the York and Lancaster families were fighting for the crown. This series ended with the defeat of King Richard III on Bosworth Field by Henry Tudor, who became King Heny VII. But it was not advisable to go on to write the next play about Henry VII, beca

温和女孩 发表于 2025-3-24 16:24:17

Summary and Critical Commentary,he bad behaviour of his son Hal, Prince of Wales. The Percy family, the Earls of Northumberland and Worcester, and young Henry Percy (called Hotspur), who placed him on the throne, are now joining with the Welsh Owen Glendower in rebellion. They wish to replace King Henry with Edmund Mortimer, Earl

Muscularis 发表于 2025-3-24 21:10:12

Technical Features,at once a tremendous success. It is said that Queen Elizabeth I was so delighted with him that she asked for another play showing the fat knight in love, so Shakespeare wrote The Merry Wives of Windsor. In the first printed version of Henry IV Part I in 1598, the title page promised readers ‘the hum

Chemotherapy 发表于 2025-3-24 23:34:21

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查看完整版本: Titlebook: Shakespeare: Henry IV Part I; Helen Morris Textbook 1986Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1986 Britain.history.history of litera