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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... true - bred cowards " ; but Falstaff is a coward on principle , a practical realist , as it were , who will fight no longer than he sees reason ( 207-8 ) . Nor will he prove to be an ordinary liar ; he will tell the most " incom ...
... true - bred cowards " ; but Falstaff is a coward on principle , a practical realist , as it were , who will fight no longer than he sees reason ( 207-8 ) . Nor will he prove to be an ordinary liar ; he will tell the most " incom ...
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... true men . Paradox is carried even further . This corpulent old man , for whom twenty - four feet up hilly ground is the equivalent of seventy miles for any one of his companions , is the personifi- cation of vitality when he confronts ...
... true men . Paradox is carried even further . This corpulent old man , for whom twenty - four feet up hilly ground is the equivalent of seventy miles for any one of his companions , is the personifi- cation of vitality when he confronts ...
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... true character is revealed to all . But the elevation of the prince is not achieved by the denigration of Hotspur's character . If young Percy finds it hard to accept Vernon's flattering description of the prince , he makes use of no ...
... true character is revealed to all . But the elevation of the prince is not achieved by the denigration of Hotspur's character . If young Percy finds it hard to accept Vernon's flattering description of the prince , he makes use of no ...
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