num_pages: 298
description: If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan “look ” none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances.
language: English
title: The First Part of Henry the Fourth
titlecomplete: The First Part of Henry the Fourth
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: 29564
series: Wars of the Roses, Henry IV
publisher: Applause