Description
Book SynopsisThe text, with few departures, is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play.
Table of ContentsPreface A Note on the Text Abbreviated Genealogy of the Mortimers and the House of Lancaster The Text of 1 Henry IV Contexts and Sources COMPOSITION AND PUBLICATION
- Excerpt from the 1598 Quarto
ONE PLAY OR TWO?
- Harold Jenkins – The Structural Problem in Shakespeare’s “Henry the Fourth”
- Paul Yachnin – History, Theatricality, and the “Structural Problem” in the Henry IV Plays
FALSTAFF OR OLDCASTLE?
- Gary Taylor – The Fortunes of Oldcastle
- David Scott Kastan – [Reforming Falstaff]
ORIGINS
- Peter Saccio – [Shakespearean History and the Reign of Henry IV]
- Edward Hall – Henry, Prince of Wales
- Raphael Holinshed – Elizabeth and the Uniting of the Two Houses
- Anonymous – An Homilee against disobedience and wylful rebellion
- Raphael Holinshed – The Chronicles of England
- Samuel Daniel – The Ciuile Wars
- The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth
Criticism
- John Dryden – The Composition of a Character
- Samuel Johnson – [Falstaff]
- Elizabeth Montagu – [Hal, Falstaff, and Taste]
- Maurice Morgann – An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff
- John Dover Wilson – The Falstaff Myth
- Arthur C. Sprague – Gadshill Revisited
- E.M.W. Tillyard – The Second Tetralogy
- Henry Ansagar Kelly – [Providence and Progaganda]
- Graham Holderness – [Tillyard, History, and Ideology]
- Sigurd Burckhardt – [Symmetry and Disorder]
- John Wilders – [Knowledge and Misjudgement]
- Stephen Greenblatt – [Theater and Power]
- Scott McMillin – [Performing 1 Henry IV]
- David Scott Kastan – “The King Hath Many Marching in His Coats,” or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
- C. L. Barber – [Mingling Kings and Clowns]
- Michael Bristol – [The Battle of Carnival and Lent]
- Samuel Crowl – [Welles and Falstaff]
- Patricia Parker – [Fat Lady Falstaff]
- Coppélia Kahn – [Masculine Identities]
- Gus Van Sant – [My Own Private Idaho]
- Susan Wiseman – [Shakespeare in Idaho]
- Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin – [Gender and Nation]
- Christopher Highley – [Defining the Nation]
- Barbara Hodgdon – [Endings]
Selected Bibliography
