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The Works of Shakespeare: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Classic Reprint)
The Works of Shakespeare The Life of King Henry the Fifth - Classic Reprint Author:William Shakespeare Excerpt from The Works of Shakespeare: The Life of King Henry the Fifth — Connexion of Henry V. With the preceding Histories, p. Ix - Its first appearance on the stage and in print, p. Xi - Date, p. Xiv - The Quarto text and its relation to the Folio, p. Xvii - Henry V. And the Famous Victories, p. Xxv-shakespeare's conception of Henry's characte... more »r, p. Xxxi - Conduct of the action and function of the Chorus, p. Xli - Supposed allusions to contemporary politics, p. Xliii - This Edition, p. Xlvii.
The emergence of the historical drama during the last decade of Elizabeth's reign, and the popularity which it achieved during its brief existence, were the natural out come of the consciousness of national unity and national greatness to which England was then awakening. Haunted for more than a quarter of a century by the constant dread of foreign invasion and domestic treachery, the country could at last breathe freely, and the fervid patriotism which now animated every order in the State found appropriate expression in a noble and solid curiosity to learn the story of the nation's past. Of this curiosity the theatres, then as always the re ection of the popular taste, were not slow to take advantage. To the earlier Chronicle Plays succeeded the Edward II. Of Marlowe, the Edward I. Of Peele, and the anonymous play of Edward the in u ence of Marlowe on his contemporaries was paramount.
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