num_pages: 336
description: During Shakespeare's lifetime, Henry IV was his most popular play. Today, Sir John Falstaff still towers above Shakespeare's other comic inventions. This edition considers the play in the context of various critical approaches, offers a history of the play in performance from Shakespeare'stime to ours, and provides useful information on its historical background. Readers will also find detailed commentary on individual words and phrases, and selections from Shakespeare's sources.
language: English
title: Henry IV, Part I
titlecomplete: Henry IV, Part I (Oxford World's Classics)
characters: Chamberlain, Elizabeth Mortimer, Baroness Camoys, Owain Glyndŵr, Henry Percy "Hotspur", Mugs (carrier), Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas, Peto, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Vintner, Servant to Hotspur, Richard le Scrope, Bishop of Lichfield and Archbishop of York, 1st Traveller, Gilliams, messenger to Hotspur, Tom (carrier), Edward "Ned" Poins, Sir Walter Blount, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, Catrin ferch Owain Glyndŵr, Ostler, Sir Richard Vernon, 8th Baron of Shipbrook, Sheriff, Henry V of England, Sir John Falstaff, 2nd Traveller, Mistress Nell Quickly, Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, Sir Edmund Mortimer IV, Sir Michael, Francis the drawer, Bardolph, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Robin Ostler, Henry IV of England
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Classics, Drama, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, Poetry, School
ratings_count: 29560
series: Wars of the Roses, Henry IV
publisher: Oxford University Press