(Encyclopedia) George IV, 1762–1830, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1820–30), eldest son and successor of George III. In 1785 he married Maria Anne Fitzherbert, a Roman Catholic. The marriage was…
Scene IPentapolis. An open place by the sea-sideEnter Pericles, wetPericlesYet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!
Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man
Is but a substance…
Act IIScene IFrance. Before AngiersEnter Austria and forces, drums, etc. on one side: on the other King Philip and his power; Lewis, Arthur, Constance and attendantsLewisBefore Angiers well…
(Encyclopedia) Windham, WilliamWindham, Williamwĭnˈdəm [key], 1750–1810, British politician. Elected to Parliament in 1784, he was a friend of Edmund Burke, whom he assisted in the impeachment of…
Scene IIFrance. A royal palaceEnter, at one door King Henry, Exeter, Bedford, Gloucester, Warwick, Westmoreland, and other Lords; at another, the French King, Queen Isabel, the Princess…
Scene IVLondon. The TowerEnter Clarence and BrakenburyBrakenburyWhy looks your grace so heavily today?ClarenceO, I have pass'd a miserable night,
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,…
(Encyclopedia) Falconer, WilliamFalconer, Williamfôkˈnər [key], 1732–69, Scottish poet. The victim of a shipwreck off Greece, he described his ordeal in a long, didactic poem, The Shipwreck (1762).…
Act IScene IA hall in Duke Solinus's palaceEnter Duke Solinus, Aegeon, Gaoler, Officers, and other AttendantsAegeonProceed, Solinus, to procure my fall
And by the doom of death end woes and…
Act IIIScene IBefore Prospero's CellEnter Ferdinand, bearing a logFerdinandThere be some sports are painful, and their labour
Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness
Are nobly…
Scene IIBefore YorkFlourish. Enter King Henry VI, Queen Margaret, Prince Edward, Clifford, and Northumberland, with drum and trumpetsQueen MargaretWelcome, my lord, to this brave town of York…
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