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1 Henry IV (Norton Critical Edition Series) » (3rd Edition)
Authors: William Shakespeare, Gordon McMullan, Gordon McMullan
ISBN-13: 9780393979312, ISBN-10: 0393979318
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: 3rd Edition
Author Biography: William Shakespeare
Gordon McMullan is Reader in English at King’s College, London. His publications include The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher, the Arden edition of Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Henry VIII, and two edited collections of essays, The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and Renaissance Configurations: Voices/Bodies/Spaces, 1580-1690. He is currently working on a book about Shakespeare and the invention of late writing.
Book Synopsis
The text, with few departures, is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| A Note on the Text | ||
| Abbreviated Genealogy of the Mortimers and the House of Lancaster | ||
| The Text of 1 Henry IV | 1 | |
| Contexts and Sources | ||
| Composition and Publication | 97 | |
| Excerpt from the 1598 Quarto | 97 | |
| The Structural Problem in Shakespeare's Henry the Fourth | 100 | |
| History, Theatricality, and the "Structural Problem" in the Henry IV Plays | 114 | |
| The Fortunes of Oldcastle | 129 | |
| Reforming Falstaff | 149 | |
| Origins | 166 | |
| Shakespearean History and the Reign of Henry IV | 167 | |
| Henry, Prince of Wales | 184 | |
| Elizabeth and the Uniting of the Two Houses | 185 | |
| An Homilee agaynst disobedience and wylful rebellion | 186 | |
| The Chronicles of England | 189 | |
| The Ciuile Wars | 200 | |
| The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth | 207 | |
| Criticism | ||
| The Composition of a Character | 219 | |
| Falstaff | 219 | |
| Hal, Falstaff, and Taste | 220 | |
| The Courage of Falstaff | 223 | |
| The Falstaff Myth | 225 | |
| Gadshill Revisited | 234 | |
| The Second Tetralogy | 248 | |
| Providence and Propaganda | 256 | |
| Tillyard, History, and Ideology | 267 | |
| Symmetry and Disorder | 274 | |
| Knowledge and Misjudgement | 277 | |
| Theater and Power | 284 | |
| Performing 1 Henry IV | 312 | |
| "The King Hath Many Marching in His Coats," or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? | 330 | |
| Mingling Kings and Clowns | 347 | |
| The Battle of Carnival and Lent | 359 | |
| Welles and Falstaff | 366 | |
| Falstaff | 381 | |
| Masculine Identities | 383 | |
| My Own Private Idaho | 387 | |
| Shakespeare in Idaho | 392 | |
| Gender and Nation | 409 | |
| Defining the Nation | 433 | |
| Endings | 452 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 471 |
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