Music at the Close: Richard II in the Elizabethan Anthologies.
The dying words spoken by John of Gaunt have a long afterlife: as sententious lines bound to catch the eye of a commonplacing reader, they seem almost designed to appear outside their dramatic setting, in manuscript and printed compilations. This essay reads Gaunt's deathbed scene, in William Shakes...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Philology Vol. 116; no. 4; pp. 696 - 728 |
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