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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James K. Lowers. Sir Walter Blunt Another nobleman loyal to King Henry and a commander of the royal forces at Shrewsbury . He functions especially as an emissary for the king . Sir Richard Vernon His role is exactly that of Sir Walter Blunt ...
James K. Lowers. Sir Walter Blunt Another nobleman loyal to King Henry and a commander of the royal forces at Shrewsbury . He functions especially as an emissary for the king . Sir Richard Vernon His role is exactly that of Sir Walter Blunt ...
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... Sir Walter Blunt , wearing armor the same as that of the king , meets Douglas , who has slain the Lord of Staf- ford ... Blunt surrender . Sir Walter does not reveal his true identity . The two fight and Blunt is slain . Hotspur enters ...
... Sir Walter Blunt , wearing armor the same as that of the king , meets Douglas , who has slain the Lord of Staf- ford ... Blunt surrender . Sir Walter does not reveal his true identity . The two fight and Blunt is slain . Hotspur enters ...
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... Sir Walter Blunt . Clearly , Hotspur will survive to old age as far as Falstaff is concerned . Commentary The report of Douglas ' slaying of the Lord of Stafford , his actual slaying of Sir Walter Blunt , and Hotspur's report that the ...
... Sir Walter Blunt . Clearly , Hotspur will survive to old age as far as Falstaff is concerned . Commentary The report of Douglas ' slaying of the Lord of Stafford , his actual slaying of Sir Walter Blunt , and Hotspur's report that the ...
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