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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... meet Falstaff as a military commander . Unscrupu- lously he has managed to enlist a group of pitiful , physically unfit " soldiers " whom he will lead to Shrewsbury . Both Prince Hal and Westmoreland remark on their unfitness but do ...
... meet Falstaff as a military commander . Unscrupu- lously he has managed to enlist a group of pitiful , physically unfit " soldiers " whom he will lead to Shrewsbury . Both Prince Hal and Westmoreland remark on their unfitness but do ...
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... meet and hear in this opening scene making what amounts to a formal address , had made the vow to fight the infidel in the Holy Land shortly after his usurpation of the throne from Richard II and the death of his predecessor for which ...
... meet and hear in this opening scene making what amounts to a formal address , had made the vow to fight the infidel in the Holy Land shortly after his usurpation of the throne from Richard II and the death of his predecessor for which ...
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... Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corse . ( 122-23 ) In a word , the conflict in the main plot is now assuming the char- acteristics of a medieval tournament , with an admirable central- izing of the action . ACT IV - SCENE 2 ...
... Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corse . ( 122-23 ) In a word , the conflict in the main plot is now assuming the char- acteristics of a medieval tournament , with an admirable central- izing of the action . ACT IV - SCENE 2 ...
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