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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... Welsh nobleman , descended from Llewellyn , last of the Welsh kings . It was he who defeated and took captive Edmund Mortimer , Earl of March , who married one of Glen- dower's daughters . Incensed because Henry IV had not provided him ...
... Welsh nobleman , descended from Llewellyn , last of the Welsh kings . It was he who defeated and took captive Edmund Mortimer , Earl of March , who married one of Glen- dower's daughters . Incensed because Henry IV had not provided him ...
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... Welsh . Mistress Quickly This is the kindly , if rather stupid and disreputable , hostess of the Boar's - Head Tavern in Eastcheap . SYNOPSIS The main plot of 1 Henry IV has as its subject the rebellion of the Percies , the northern ...
... Welsh . Mistress Quickly This is the kindly , if rather stupid and disreputable , hostess of the Boar's - Head Tavern in Eastcheap . SYNOPSIS The main plot of 1 Henry IV has as its subject the rebellion of the Percies , the northern ...
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... Welsh airs and what he calls " mincing poetry . " These cultivated subjects have no place in the life of the Hotspur of the North . Al- though at one point Lady Percy says that her husband is " gov- erned by humours " ( 237 ) , it is ...
... Welsh airs and what he calls " mincing poetry . " These cultivated subjects have no place in the life of the Hotspur of the North . Al- though at one point Lady Percy says that her husband is " gov- erned by humours " ( 237 ) , it is ...
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