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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... leave . Now it is Northumberland who addresses Henry IV , voicing words of conciliation . Hotspur , he states , has been maligned , for his son never intended to ignore a royal command . Hotspur himself explains what happened . Battle ...
... leave . Now it is Northumberland who addresses Henry IV , voicing words of conciliation . Hotspur , he states , has been maligned , for his son never intended to ignore a royal command . Hotspur himself explains what happened . Battle ...
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... leave to put on the dis- guises which will serve their purpose later . Rendered helpless , perhaps chiefly by the ... leaving the loot . The thought of the corpulent Falstaff foot- ing it all the way to London delights Hal and Poins ...
... leave to put on the dis- guises which will serve their purpose later . Rendered helpless , perhaps chiefly by the ... leaving the loot . The thought of the corpulent Falstaff foot- ing it all the way to London delights Hal and Poins ...
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... leaves to " send him packing . " During Sir John's absence Bardolph and Peto tell how the old knight coached them to ... leave him unperturbed ; unlike Sir John , he cannot be a coward . But Hal must appear before his royal father , and ...
... leaves to " send him packing . " During Sir John's absence Bardolph and Peto tell how the old knight coached them to ... leave him unperturbed ; unlike Sir John , he cannot be a coward . But Hal must appear before his royal father , and ...
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