Authors: William Shakespeare, Barbara Hodgdon
ISBN-13: 9780312134020, ISBN-10: 0312134029
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Date Published: January 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
This teaching edition of Shakespeare’s The First Part of King Henry the Fourth responds to the needs of instructors using a variety of approaches to Shakespeare, including historical and cultural studies approaches. The play is accompanied by 6 sets of primary documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare’s work within that culture. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, excerpts from the chronicle accounts of English history, conduct book literature, military manuals, descriptions of the early modern theater and other entertainments, and literary works presenting alternative versions of Shakespeare’s play. The documents and illustrations contextualize the play’s treatment of history, civic order and rebellion, authority, the idea of honor, the feminine, the education of a prince, and revelry at the margins of culture. Editorial features designed to help students read the play in light of the historical documents include an intelligent and engaging general introduction, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an extensive bibliography.
The three individual plays launch the third edition of the venerable "Arden Shakespeare" series, which will see the entire canon reproduced in superior scholarly editions by the year 2000. The First Folio is a facsimile edition of the original 1623 publication of the bard's works.
About the Series | ||
About This Volume | ||
List of Illustrations | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. 1 | William Shakespeare, The First Part of King Henry the Fourth | 17 |
Pt. 2 | Early Modern Documents and Controversies | 119 |
1 | Historiography and the Uses of History | 121 |
2 | Civil Order and Rebellion | 169 |
3 | Cultural Territories | 195 |
Mapping the Land and Its People | 196 | |
London | 200 | |
Theatre in London: Sites and Controversies | 208 | |
Alehouse and Tavern | 211 | |
Women in Henry IV, Part I: Wives, Rebels, and Others | 216 | |
Wales | 218 | |
4 | The "Education" of a Prince | 275 |
5 | Honor and Arms: Elizabethan Neochivalric Culture and the Military Trades | 318 |
The Chivalric Heritage | 319 | |
Elizabethan Rites and Chivalric Rights | 321 | |
War | 326 | |
Manuals of Honor: The Ideal and the Practice | 334 | |
6 | The Oldcastle Controversy: "What's in a Name?" | 349 |
Bibliography | 392 | |
Index | 405 |