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The text for this edition is based on the First Quarto (1598), incorporating the act and scene divisions of the First Folio. It includes 19 critical essays and an argument on the naming of a central character (Falstaff or Oldcastle?), and the annotati
List of contents
PrefaceA Note on the TextAbbreviated Genealogy of the Mortimers and the House of Lancaster
The Text of 1 Henry IV
Contexts and Sources
COMPOSITION AND PUBLICATION
- Excerpt from the 1598 Quarto
ONE PLAY OR TWO?
- Harold Jenkins - The Structural Problem in Shakespeare's "Henry the Fourth"
- Paul Yachnin - History, Theatricality, and the "Structural Problem" in the Henry IV Plays
FALSTAFF OR OLDCASTLE?
- Gary Taylor - The Fortunes of Oldcastle
- David Scott Kastan - [Reforming Falstaff]
ORIGINS
- Peter Saccio - [Shakespearean History and the Reign of Henry IV]
- Edward Hall - Henry, Prince of Wales
- Raphael Holinshed - Elizabeth and the Uniting of the Two Houses
- Anonymous - An Homilee against disobedience and wylful rebellion
- Raphael Holinshed - The Chronicles of England
- Samuel Daniel - The Ciuile Wars
- The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth
Criticism
- John Dryden - The Composition of a Character
- Samuel Johnson - [Falstaff]
- Elizabeth Montagu - [Hal, Falstaff, and Taste]
- Maurice Morgann - An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff
- John Dover Wilson - The Falstaff Myth
- Arthur C. Sprague - Gadshill Revisited
- E.M.W. Tillyard - The Second Tetralogy
- Henry Ansagar Kelly - [Providence and Progaganda]
- Graham Holderness - [Tillyard, History, and Ideology]
- Sigurd Burckhardt - [Symmetry and Disorder]
- John Wilders - [Knowledge and Misjudgement]
- Stephen Greenblatt - [Theater and Power]
- Scott McMillin - [Performing 1 Henry IV]
- David Scott Kastan - "The King Hath Many Marching in His Coats," or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
- C. L. Barber - [Mingling Kings and Clowns]
- Michael Bristol - [The Battle of Carnival and Lent]
- Samuel Crowl - [Welles and Falstaff]
- Patricia Parker - [Fat Lady Falstaff]
- Coppélia Kahn - [Masculine Identities]
- Gus Van Sant - [My Own Private Idaho]
- Susan Wiseman - [Shakespeare in Idaho]
- Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin - [Gender and Nation]
- Christopher Highley - [Defining the Nation]
- Barbara Hodgdon - [Endings]
Selected Bibliography
About the author
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) gilt als einer der größten Dichter und Dramatiker der Weltgeschichte. Er verfasste zahlreiche Dramen, Tragödien, Komödien und Gedichte, mit denen er schon zu Lebzeiten Anerkennung und Wohlstand errang. Aber erst in den folgenden Jahrhunderten wurde er zum Prototypen des literarischen Genies, ohne den die Entwicklung der neueren Literatur von Goethe über Brecht bis in die Gegenwart hinein undenkbar ist.
Summary
The text, with few departures, is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play.
