num_pages: 432
description: The text, with few departures, is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play. 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.
language: English
title: I Henry IV
titlecomplete: I Henry IV
characters: Sir Richard Vernon, 8th Baron of Shipbrook, Owain Glyndŵr, Catrin ferch Owain Glyndŵr, Henry Percy "Hotspur", Henry IV of England, Ostler, Edward "Ned" Poins, Henry V of England, Bardolph, Peto, Vintner, Chamberlain, Servant to Hotspur, Mistress Nell Quickly, Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, Richard le Scrope, Bishop of Lichfield and Archbishop of York, Gilliams, messenger to Hotspur, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Sir Michael, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Sir Walter Blount, Francis the drawer, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, 2nd Traveller, Sir John Falstaff, Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas, Mugs (carrier), Sir Edmund Mortimer IV, Tom (carrier), 1st Traveller, Sheriff, Robin Ostler, Elizabeth Mortimer, Baroness Camoys
genres: Historical Fiction, Theatre, Historical, School, Drama, Plays, Poetry, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 29553
series: Henry IV, Wars of the Roses
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company