... the choruses, and the emotional structure of the play is based on them rather than on Thomas's exercise in self-analysis.For that was the point of the Festival;the ordinary human response to the exceptional events, the martyrdom which repeats and reminds us of Christ''s own sacrifice. Ritually the play comments a fresh on an act whose meaning may have been ... focus his action upon the conflict of king and chancellor it broods over the play, putting pressures on Thomas and making the spiritual dilemma rael by providing it with its context in this world; the struggle between Henry and Th...

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