Full Description
Act and scene divisions are not indicated in the Quarto; those of the First Folio have been incorporated, with one exception: scene ii of Act V has been divided into two scenes, with the concluding scenes numbered accordingly. The Third Edition includes expanded annotations.
"Contexts and Sources" includes dueling arguments on the play's completeness (one play or one half of a play?) and the naming of a central character (Falstaff or Oldcastle?).
"Criticism" includes twenty-four essays—from E. M. W. Tillyard's classic argument of an ordered Shakespearean universe to Graham Holderness's rebuttal to Gus Van Sant's interview regarding 1 Henry IV as the inspiration for his cult film, My Own Private Idaho—nineteen of them new to the Third Edition.
The Selected Bibliography has been thoroughly updated.
Contents
Preface
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
