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59 Apart from Margaret, no one at court speaks out against Richard’s acts. But in the London streets the citizens do. The first ...
60 Stepfather to Kills RICHARD III As the seasons turn from Richard’s busy sunshine to his autumnal fall, Margaret returns. In a ...
THE FREELANCE WRITER 61 His verbal skills are to the fore when he persuades Lady Anne to be his wife (1.2), and Queen Elizabeth ...
TO DIE IS ALL AS COMMON AS TO LIVE EDWARD III (1592–1593) ...
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64 A t the English court, King Edward III is discussing his claim to the French crown with the Comte d’Artois, who has joined th ...
65 kill both their spouses. The Countess is horrified; the king finally sees sense and apologizes. Off Sluys on the Belgian coas ...
66 E dward III is the story of one of England’s most formidable warrior kings, who ruled the country for half a century until hi ...
67 judge on their lives: “Thy beauty makes them guilty of their death” (3.157). The Countess is mortified, exclaiming: “O, perju ...
WHAT ERROR DRIVES OUR EYES AND EARS AMISS? THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (1594) ...
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70 T he city of Ephesus is at war with Syracuse. Syracusans visiting Ephesus illegally must pay a fine or be executed. One such ...
71 Luciana, both of whom resent the time he spends away from home visiting the tavern and a courtesan. Furious that he’s late a ...
72 Servant to T he confusion at the heart of The Comedy of Errors is caused by a natural phenomenon, twinship, a subject that in ...
73 threatened in this way, it becomes apparent how swiftly family and social relationships can fall apart. Dramatic structure Eg ...
74 HUNTING HE LOVED BUT LOVE HE LAUGHED TO SCORN VENUS AND ADONIS (1592–1593) T he poem Venus and Adonis retells the mythical ta ...
to the ground, she tells him at length how lucky he should feel to be desired by one who was wooed by so great a figure as the g ...
76 dashes to see what is happening. She spies “the hunted boar” (l.900), sees Adonis’s exhausted and wounded hounds, and bemoans ...
77 which he refers to and quotes from many times in his plays. He even brings a copy of the poems on stage in his early tragedy ...
78 WHO BUYS A MINUTE’S MIRTH TO WAIL A WEEK THE RAPE OF LUCRECE (1593–1594) T he Rape of Lucrece is a poem that tells the classi ...
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