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Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare (Illustrated) - William Shakespeare
The Complete Works of
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
VOLUME 15 OF 74
Henry IV, Part I
Parts Edition
By Delphi Classics, 2012
Version 6
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‘Henry IV, Part I’
William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)
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This eBook is Part 15 of the Delphi Classics edition of William Shakespeare in 74 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Henry IV, Part I from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of William Shakespeare, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
IN 74 VOLUMES
Parts Edition Contents
The Plays
1, Henry VI, Part 2
2, Henry VI, Part 3
3, Henry VI, Part 1
4, Richard III
5, The Comedy of Errors
6, Titus Andronicus
7, Taming of the Shrew
8, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
9, Love’s Labour’s Lost
10, Romeo and Juliet
11, Richard II
12, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
13, King John
14, The Merchant of Venice
15, Henry IV, Part I
16, Henry IV, Part II
17, Much Ado About Nothing
18, Henry V
19, Julius Caesar
20, As You Like It
21, Twelfth Night
22, Hamlet
23, The Merry Wives of Windsor
24, Troilus and Cressida
25, All’s Well that Ends Well
26, Measure for Measure
27, Othello
28, King Lear
29, Macbeth
30, Antony and Cleopatra
31, Coriolanus
32, Timon of Athens
33, Pericles
34, Cymbeline
35, The Winter’s Tale
36, The Tempest
37, Henry VIII
38, The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Lost Plays
39, The Lost Plays
The Sources
40, The Plays’ Sources
The Apocryphal Plays
41, Arden of Faversham
42, The Birth of Merlin
43, King Edward III
44, Locrine
45, The London Prodigal
46, The Puritan
47, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy
48, Sir John Oldcastle
49, Thomas Lord Cromwell
50, A Yorkshire Tragedy
51, Sir Thomas More
52, Fair Em
53, Mucedorus
54, The Merry Devil of Edmonton
55, Edmund Ironside
56, Thomas of Woodstock
57, Vortigern and Rowena
The Adaptations
58, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
The Poetry
59, The Sonnets
60, Venus and Adonis
61, The Rape of Lucrece
62, The Passionate Pilgrim
63, The Phoenix and the Turtle
64, A Lover’s Complaint
The Apocryphal Poetry
65, To the Queen
66, A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter
67, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
The Criticism
68, The Criticism
The Biographies
69, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe
70, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters by Henry Norman Hudson
71, Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee
72, Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London by Arthur Acheson
73, The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner
Resources
74, Resources
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Henry IV, Part I
Believed to have been written no later than 1597, this is the second play in Shakespeare’s tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V. This popular play covers events that begin with Hotspur’s battle at Homildon against Douglas late in 1402 and culminates with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of 1403. However, the play is most treasured for its ‘show-stealing’ comedic character Sir John Falstaff, who would become Shakespeare’s most popular creation. Though used for comedic effect, Falstaff’s famous comments on honour and his criticism of contemporary society are telling signs of the playwright’s more serious genius.
Shakespeare’s primary source for Henry IV, Part 1 was the 1587 edition of Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles, which in turn drew on Edward Hall’s The Union of the Two Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York.
The real life Henry IV
The title page of the first quarto copy, 1598
CONTENTS
Dramatis Personæ
Act I. Scene I.
Act I. Scene II.
Act I. Scene III.
Act II. Scene I.
Act II. Scene II.
Act II. Scene III.
Act II. Scene IV.
Act III. Scene I.
Act III. Scene II.
Act III. Scene III.
Act IV. Scene I.
Act IV. Scene II.
Act IV. Scene III.
Act IV. Scene IV.
Act V. Scene I.
Act V. Scene II.
Act V. Scene III.
Act V. Scene IV.
Act V. Scene V.
Jeremy Irons as Henry IV in the 2012 TV series ‘The Hollow Crown’
Dramatis Personæ
KING HENRY THE FOURTH.
HENRY, Prince of Wales, & JOHN OF LANCASTER, Sons to the King.
EARL OF WESTMORELAND.
SIR WALTER BLUNT.
THOMAS PERCY, Earl of Worcester.
HENRY PERCY, Earl of Northumberland.
HENRY PERCY, surnamed Hotspur, his son.
EDMUND MORTIMER, Earl of March.
RICHARD SCROOP, Archbishop of York.
ARCHIBALD, Earl of Douglas.
OWEN GLENDOWER.
SIR RICHARD VERNON.
SIR JOHN FALSTAFF.
SIR MICHAEL, a Friend to the Archbishop of York.
POINS.
GADSHILL.
PETO.
BARDOLPH.
LADY PERCY, Wife to Hotspur, and Sister to Mortimer.
LADY MORTIMER, Daughter to Glendower, and Wife to Mortimer.
MISTRESS QUICKLY, Hostess of the Boar’s Head Tavern in Eastcheap.
Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, two Carriers, Travellers, and Attendants.
SCENE. — England.
Act I. Scene I.
London. The Palace.
Enter KING HENRY, WESTMORELAND, and Others.
K. Hen. So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils 5
To be commence’d in stronds afar remote.
No more the thirsty entrance of this soil
Shall daub her lips with her own children’s blood;
No more shall trenching war channel her fields,
Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs 10
Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes,
Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
All of one nature, of one substance bred,
Did lately meet in the intestine shock
And furious close of civil butchery, 15
Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks,
March all one way, and be no more oppos’d
Against acquaintance, kindred, and allies:
The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,
No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends, 20
As far as to the sepulchre of Christ, —
Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross
We are impressed and engag’d to fight, —
Forthwith a power of English shall we levy,
Whose arms were moulded in their mother’s womb 25
To chase these pagans in those holy fields
Over whose acres walk’d those blessed feet
Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail’d
For our advantage on the bitter cross.
But this our purpose is a twelvemonth old, 30
And bootless ’tis to tell you we will go:
Therefore we meet not now. Then let me hear
Of you, my gentle cousin Westmoreland,
What yesternight our council did decree
In forwarding this dear expedience. 35
West. My liege, this haste was hot in question,
And many limits of the charge set down
But yesternight; when all athwart there came
A post from Wales loaden with heavy news;
Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer, 40
Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight
Against the irregular and wild Glendower,
Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,
And a thousand of his people butchered;
Upon whose dead corpse’ there was such misuse, 45
Such beastly