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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... England . For the record , it was his nephew , a younger Ed- mund , who married Glendower's daughter and who , as son and proclaimed heir of Roger Mortimer , Earl of March , was claimant to the throne of England . By taking liberties ...
... England . For the record , it was his nephew , a younger Ed- mund , who married Glendower's daughter and who , as son and proclaimed heir of Roger Mortimer , Earl of March , was claimant to the throne of England . By taking liberties ...
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... England took a sort of pride in being on quite familiar terms with drawers and that only favored guests were invited to the cellar to sample the wine in the hogsheads . Democratic sentiments must not mislead us . The prince of ...
... England took a sort of pride in being on quite familiar terms with drawers and that only favored guests were invited to the cellar to sample the wine in the hogsheads . Democratic sentiments must not mislead us . The prince of ...
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... England had reason to fear an invasion and the rising of native Catholics . The danger was by no means restricted to the year 1588 , when Philip II of Spain sent his Armada to subdue England . In view of such challenges to Tudor ...
... England had reason to fear an invasion and the rising of native Catholics . The danger was by no means restricted to the year 1588 , when Philip II of Spain sent his Armada to subdue England . In view of such challenges to Tudor ...
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