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IN SHAKSPEARE

13103

By

J. A. R. MARRIOTT

Fellow of Worcester College,

Member of Parliament for the City of Oxford.

Mother, mother beloved, none other could claim in place of thee
England's place;

Earth bears none that beholds the sun so pure of record, so clothed

with grace:

Dear own mother, nor son nor brother is thine, as strong or as fair of
face,

How shalt thou be abased? or how shall fear take hold of thy heart?

of thine,

England, maiden immortal, laden with charge of life and with hopes
divine?

Earth shall wither, when eyes turned hither behold not light in her
darkness shine."

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CHAP.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I Introductory. The Spirit of England as

revealed in the Chronicle Plays

II The Troublesome Reign of King John

III

IV

Richard the "Redeless "-The Amateur

in Politics

"The Unquiet Time of King Henry the

Fourth" The "Vile Politician

--

Bolingbroke "

v King Henry the Fifth: The Spirit of

England in Victory

VI The House Divided: Lancaster and

York-Henry the Sixth and Edward

the Fourth-The Wars of the Roses

VII The Yorkist Monarchy: The Tragedy

of King Richard the Third

VIII The Re-Birth of England: Henry the

Eighth and the Tudor Dictatorship

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