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Informationen zum Autor William Shakespeare Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan Klappentext A play alive with escapades and action, comedy and history, Henry IV, Part One begins the transformation of the madcap Prince Hal into the splendid ruler King Henry. In it a rebellion against King and State is juxtaposed with another rebellion-the riotous misbehavior of Hal and his companions, principally Falstaff. A superbly funny liar, coward, lecher, and cheat, the larger-than-life character Falstaff turns this great historical drama into a masterpiece of counterpoint and design. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography Dramatis Personae king Henry the fourth prince Henry, Prince of Wales, sons of the King prince john of Lancaster, earl of Westmorland sir Walter blunt earl of Northumberland, Henry Percy, Harry Percy, (hotspur), his son, earl of Worcester, Northumberland's younger brother, lord Mortimer, Edmund Mortimer, also referred to as the Earl of March, Owen Glendower, earl of Douglas, Archibald Douglas, sir Richard Vernon, archbishop of York, Richard Scroop, sir Michael, a member of the Archbishop's household, lady Percy, Hotspur's wife and Mortimer's sister lady Mortimer, Mortimer's wife and Glendower's daughter sir john Falstaff Ned Poins Bardolph Peto Gadshill, arranger of the highway robbery hostess of the tavern, Mistress Quickly Francis, a drawer, or tapster vintner, or tavern keeper first carrier second carrier hostler chamberlain first traveler sheriff servant to Hotspur messenger second messenger Soldiers, Travelers, Lords, Attendants scene: England and Wales 1.1. Location: The royal court. 2 Find we let us find. frighted frightened 3 breathe short-winded accents speak, even though we are out of breath. accents words broils battles 4 strands afar remote far-off shores, i.e., of the Holy Land (to which, at the end of Richard II, Henry has pledged himself to a crusade) 5 thirsty entrance i.e., parched mouth 6 daub coat, smear 7 trenching cutting, plowing 9 paces horses' tread 12 intestine internal 13 close hand-to-hand encounter. civil (as in "civil war") 18 his its 21 impressed conscripted 22 power army 23 their mother's i.e., England's, but also suggesting their mothers' 1.1 A Enter the King, Lord John of Lancaster, [the] Earl of Westmorland, [Sir Walter Blunt,] with others. king So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, 2 And breathe short-winded accents of new broils 3 To be commenced in strands afar remote. 4 No more the thirsty entrance of this soil 5 Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood; 6 No more shall trenching war channel her fields 7 Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs Of hostile paces. Those opposed eyes, 9 Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven, All of one nature, of one substance bred, Did lately meet in the intestine shock 12 And furious close of civil butchery, 13 Shall now in mutual well-beseeming ranks March all one way and be no more opposed Against acquaintance, kindred, and allies.
