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“Tut, tut! Good enough to toss; food for powder, food for powder. They’ll fill a pit as good as better. Tush, man, mortal men, mortal men.”
Henry IV, Part One Act Four By Dennis Abrams ———————- Act Four: Rumors of Hal’s unexpected appearance reach the rebels, already reeling from bad news about Northumberland (who is seriously ill), and Glendower’s army (badly unprepared and not yet available). … Continue reading
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“It is difficult to imagine that a historical play as good as Henry IV will ever again be written.”
An Introduction to Henry IV, Part One By Dennis Abrams “No play of Shakespeare’s is better than Henry IV…History as a dramatic form ripens here to a point past which no further growth is possible.” If Richard II is a … Continue reading
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