 | Kristen Poole - 2006 - 292 pages
...Post-Falstaffian representations of Oldcastle frequently seek to remedy the knight's battered image. The First Part of the True and Honourable History...the Life of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham (1599), as the title suggests, redeems Bale's Oldcastle from Falstaff's fleshy sins; the Prologue again... | |
 | 1984 - 472 pages
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 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 564 pages
...Tradition, which will go near to put the Matter out of Question. I have an Edition printed in 1600 of the First Part of the True and Honourable History...Life of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham. There is a Prologue prefix'd, which expresses some Fears in the Author lest the "doubtful Title" upon... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 240 pages
...Sylla. 1594 The True Tragedy of Richard , Duke of York. 1594 The True Tragedy of Richard III. 1600 The First Part of the True and Honourable History of the Life of Sir John Oldcastle. 1602 The True Chronicle History of the Whole Life and Death of Thomas, Lord Cromwell. 1605 The True... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 308 pages
...Shakespeare's history plays with contemporary dramatic material is undoubtedly that of Henry IV and The True and Honourable History, of the Life of Sir John Old-castle, the Good Lord Cobham (1600), which, as its title conveys, rather emphatically rehabilitates the Protestant martyr whose... | |
 | 2004 - 494 pages
...that time.62 Drayton's career was intimately linked to Shakespeare's, as he was one of the authors of The First Part of the True and Honourable History of the Life of Sir John Oldcastle (performed 1599, published 1600). written as a riposte to the unflattering portrait of Oldcastle/Falstaff... | |
 | Frances A. Shirley - 2005 - 200 pages
...28 Ben Jonson, The Case Is Altered (London, 1609), G4v. 29 The first part of the True and honorable history of the Life of Sir John OldCastle, the good Lord Cobham (London, 1600), p. Blv. (Priests and curates in general are called 'Sir', so with Hugh Evans or Sir... | |
 | Douglas A. Brooks - 2006 - 320 pages
...a quartet of dramatists from the rival Admiral's Men pooled their inconsiderable talents to produce The First Part of the True and Honourable History of the Life of Sir John Oldcustle, the Good Lord Cobham,'" is representative of the play's critical reception. Shakespeare's... | |
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The first part of the true and honourable History of the Life of Sir John Oldcastle, the good Lord Cobham," came out, on the titlepage of which the name of William Shakespeare appeared at length. 
