King John and Henry VIII by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2022-05-16T00:00:00+00:00

“His pride,” another character says, “peeps through each part of him.” Not pride and ambition alone, for we are told also of his malice and “potency”; that his nature is revengeful and his sword is sharp. At that moment there enters the Cardinal himself and sweeps across the stage, his eye fixed “with disdain” on Buckingham, who looks at him with equal disdain. From the beginning Shakespeare leaves us in no doubt in regard to Wolsey. The Cardinal threatens, even in this momentary appearance, that Buckingham shall lessen that big look and before even this short scene is over, we are given an opportunity of seeing how well the Cardinal keeps his promises. Buckingham’s taunts that “the butcher’s cur is venom mouthed,” his names, “this fox,” “this wolf,” this “cunning cardinal” follow him. In vain does Norfolk counsel that “temperance” which Buckingham so evidently lacks. But that Buckingham’s suspicions are well founded is shown by his almost instant arrest for high treason; thus he, who has shown himself loyal to his king is, with his friends, caught as he says “in the net” and goes to the Tower with the words,

I am the shadow of poor Buckingham

Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on

By darkening my clear sun.

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