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The play opens with the figure of Rumour, who, with a grim though quite energetic relish, enjoys the power he exercises over a listening world. He prepares the audience for the agents of rumour, who ride to Northumberland’s castle and who gradually reveal what Rumour has truthfully told us — that the King won the battle at Shrewsbury and that Hotspur is dead.
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© 1998 Richard Gill
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Gill, R. (1998). 2 Henry IV. In: Mastering Shakespeare. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14551-5_31
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