num_pages: 576
description: More troubled and troubling than King Henry IV Part 1, the play continues the story of King Henry's decline and Hal's reform. Though Part 2 echoes the structure of the earlier play, it is a darker and more unsettling world, in which even Falstaff's revelry is more tired and cynical, and the once-merry Hal sloughs off his tavern companions to become King Henry V.James C. Bulman's authoritative edition provides a wealth of incisive commentary on this complex history play.
language: English
title: King Henry IV, Part 2
titlecomplete: King Henry IV, Part 2
characters: Sir John Colleville, Ralph Mouldy, Ursula, Elizabeth Mortimer, Baroness Camoys, Second Strewer, Master Dumbe, Justice Silence, Fauconbridge, First Strewer, Henry IV of England, Ancient Pistol, Gower, Page to King Henry IV, Henry V of England, Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Rumour, the Presenter, Messenger, First Beadle, William Gascoigne, Dorothy "Doll" Tearsheet, Nell Poins, Sir John Blount, Simon Shadow, Peto, Master Tisick, Master Smooth, Sergeant Fang, 2nd drawer, Thomas Wart, Sneak, Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf, Sir Ralph Hastings, Servant to the Lord Chief Justice, Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk, Peter Bullcalf, Maud, Baroness Lucy, Lady Northumberland, Travers, Mistress Nell Quickly, Robert Shallow, Francis the drawer, Bardolph, Francis Feeble, Goodwife Keech, Thomas Fitzalan, 5th Earl of Arundel, 10th Earl of Surrey, Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, Sergeant Snare, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Speaker of the Epilogue, Richard le Scrope, Bishop of Lichfield and Archbishop of York, Master Dommellton, Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, Harcourt, Robin, Page to Falstaff, Edward "Ned" Poins, Sir John Falstaff, Second Beadle, Morton, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, Davy, servant to Justice Shallow, Third Strewer
genres: Drama, Theatre, Historical, Literature, Plays, Poetry, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 19440
places: Warkworth, Northumberland, Engand
series: Henry IV, Wars of the Roses
publisher: The Arden Shakespeare