num_pages: 284
description: The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition retains Giorgio Melchiori's text of Shakespeare's The Second Part of King Henry IV. Melchiori argues that the play forms an unplanned sequel to the First Part, itself a 'remake' of an old, non-Shakespearean play. In the Second Part, Shakespeare deliberately exploits Falstaff's popular appeal and the resulting rich humour adds a comic dimension to the play, rendering it a unique blend of history, morality play and comedy. Among modern editions, Melchiori's is the one most firmly based on the quarto. This second edition includes a new section by Adam Hansen on recent stage, film and critical interpretations.
language: English
title: The Second Part of King Henry IV
titlecomplete: The Second Part of King Henry IV (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
characters: Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk, Speaker of the Epilogue, Second Beadle, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Robin, Page to Falstaff, Morton, Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, Nell Poins, Elizabeth Mortimer, Baroness Camoys, Bardolph, Master Tisick, Sneak, William Gascoigne, Third Strewer, Servant to the Lord Chief Justice, Robert Shallow, Henry IV of England, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, Peter Bullcalf, Second Strewer, Ancient Pistol, Rumour, the Presenter, Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, Gower, Master Dommellton, Thomas Wart, Richard le Scrope, Bishop of Lichfield and Archbishop of York, Justice Silence, Davy, servant to Justice Shallow, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Ralph Hastings, Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf, Sir John Colleville, Mistress Nell Quickly, Edward "Ned" Poins, Peto, Francis the drawer, Francis Feeble, 2nd drawer, Master Smooth, Thomas Fitzalan, 5th Earl of Arundel, 10th Earl of Surrey, Dorothy "Doll" Tearsheet, Travers, Goodwife Keech, Sir John Blount, Master Dumbe, Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Sergeant Snare, Sergeant Fang, Ralph Mouldy, Ursula, Fauconbridge, Maud, Baroness Lucy, Lady Northumberland, Harcourt, Simon Shadow, Messenger, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, First Beadle, Henry V of England, Page to King Henry IV, First Strewer
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Historical, Poetry, British Literature, Drama, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 19428
places: Warkworth, Northumberland, Engand
series: Wars of the Roses, Henry IV
publisher: Cambridge University Press