CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's King Henry IVWiley, 1971 - 80 pages This popular play entertains and inspires in alternating comic scenes and serious ones and is the birthplace of one of the theater's greatest characters, Sir John Falstaff. Young Prince Hal rebels against his father the king until he must go to the king's aid to stamp out the rebellion of nobles. |
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... Douglas slays Blunt , mistaking him for the king , and he exchanges words of warlike determina- tion with Hotspur . A contrast is provided by Falstaff , who sud- denly appears after the two have left . We learn that he has committed his ...
... Douglas slays Blunt , mistaking him for the king , and he exchanges words of warlike determina- tion with Hotspur . A contrast is provided by Falstaff , who sud- denly appears after the two have left . We learn that he has committed his ...
Page 55
... Douglas may suggest that the Scots- man is young Percy's alter ego , it is Douglas , not Hotspur , who is the exemplar of unreflecting dauntlessness . Perhaps this dif- ference is implicit in the fact that Douglas is hailed for his cour ...
... Douglas may suggest that the Scots- man is young Percy's alter ego , it is Douglas , not Hotspur , who is the exemplar of unreflecting dauntlessness . Perhaps this dif- ference is implicit in the fact that Douglas is hailed for his cour ...
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James K. Lowers. point in the action , Douglas re - enters and engages Falstaff , who soon falls down as if he were dead . Just as Douglas leaves , Hot- spur himself is wounded and falls . In moving words , young Percy begins to recite ...
James K. Lowers. point in the action , Douglas re - enters and engages Falstaff , who soon falls down as if he were dead . Just as Douglas leaves , Hot- spur himself is wounded and falls . In moving words , young Percy begins to recite ...
Contents
Introduction | 5 |
List of Characters | 9 |
Brief Plot Synopsis | 14 |
Copyright | |
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ACT II-SCENE ACT V-SCENE action amusing appears Archbishop of York Bardolph battle Battle of Shrewsbury battlefield blank verse Boar's-Head Tavern Bolingbroke called character chronicle-history play comedy comic scene comic subplot Commentary companions courage Crown Earl of March Earl of Northumberland Earl of Westmoreland end of Act especially fat knight father Glendower and Mortimer God's Hal and Poins Hal's heir heir-apparent Henry IV plays Henry Percy Holinshed honor horse John of Lancaster King Henry king's law and order Lord lowly main plot noble Oldcastle Percy's Peto play extempore Prince Hal Prince John Prince of Wales prince's prose provides rebel leaders rebellion rebuke reference refuses reply revolt Richard II royal forces sack says Scots serious Shakespeare Shrewsbury single combat Sir John Falstaff Sir Richard Vernon Sir Walter Blunt Sixteenth-Century Political soliloquy speare's speech Summary tell theme thieves throne titular hero warrior Welsh witty words young Percy young prince