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Henry IV, Part I

William Shakespeare

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Table of contents
  • Title Page3
  • Copyright Page4
  • Note5
  • Table of Contents6
  • Dramatis Personae7
  • ACT I.8
  • SCENE I. London. The Palace.8
  • SCENE II. London. An Apartment of the Prince’s.8
  • SCENE III. London. The Palace.10
  • ACT II.14
  • SCENE I. Rochester. An Inn Yard.14
  • SCENE II. The Highway, near Gadshill14
  • SCENE III. Warkworth Castle.15
  • SCENE IV. The Boar’s-Head Tavern in Eastcheap.16
  • ACT III.22
  • SCENE I. Bangor. The Archdeacon’s House.22
  • SCENE II. London. The Palace.24
  • SCENE III. The Boar’s-Head Tavern in Eastcheap.25
  • ACT IV.28
  • SCENE I. The Rebel Camp near Shrewsbury.28
  • SCENE II. A Public Road near Coventry.29
  • SCENE III. The Rebel Camp near Shrewsbury.29
  • SCENE IV York. The Archbishop’s Palace.30
  • ACT V32
  • SCENE I. The King’s Camp near Shrewsbury.32
  • SCENE II. The Rebel Camp.33
  • SCENE III. Plain between the Camps.33
  • SCENE IV. Another Part of the Field.34
  • SCENE V. Another Part of the Field.36
Book details
  • Vendor Dover Publications
  • SKU 9780486112114
  • ISBN-13 9780486112114
  • Author William Shakespeare
  • Category Drama
  • Subject Shakespeare

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One of the most popular of all Shakespeare's history plays, Henry IV, Part I re-creates actual events from early-15th-century English history as King Henry deals a rebellion inside with his kingdom led by Harry Percy ("Hotspur") and other notables. Besides this mutinous action, the king must also contend with the dissolute ways of his son, Prince Hal, who spends much of his time in the company of the witty, rotund, tavern-haunting Sir John Falstaff, one of Shakespeare's immortal comic characters. During the rebellion against his father, however, Hal acquits himself honorably in battle, portending the eventual transformation in later plays of the wild prince into a great warrior-king. These various themes are woven together here in a superb blend of brilliantly staged scenes depicting the king's attempts to pacify the rebels and maintain his power, the plotting of Percy and other insurgents, grim action on the battlefield, and the low comedy of Falstaff and his comrades — all brought to life in some of Shakespeare's finest blank verse and raciest prose.