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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... tavern door interrupts this merriment . At Hal's request , Falstaff hides behind the arras and the others go upstairs , leaving the prince with Peto to face the law . The carrier who accompanies the sheriff into the tavern identifies ...
... tavern door interrupts this merriment . At Hal's request , Falstaff hides behind the arras and the others go upstairs , leaving the prince with Peto to face the law . The carrier who accompanies the sheriff into the tavern identifies ...
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... tavern sanctuary . His reply to Hal , who once more accuses him of being " a natural coward , " is worth brief comment . " I deny your major , ' he says ( 544 ) . Falstaff thus spontaneously uses the vocabulary of formal logic , again ...
... tavern sanctuary . His reply to Hal , who once more accuses him of being " a natural coward , " is worth brief comment . " I deny your major , ' he says ( 544 ) . Falstaff thus spontaneously uses the vocabulary of formal logic , again ...
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... tavern were my drum ! ( 229-30 ) His sensitive appetite must be satisfied under all circumstances . And it is suggested that he would like to transfer the tavern to the battlefield . Perhaps , in a metaphorical sense , he will do ...
... tavern were my drum ! ( 229-30 ) His sensitive appetite must be satisfied under all circumstances . And it is suggested that he would like to transfer the tavern to the battlefield . Perhaps , in a metaphorical sense , he will do ...
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