The Text of 1 Henry IV

Contexts and Sources

1. Excerpt from the 1598 Quarto

1. Harold Jenkins - The Structural Problem in Shakespeare's "Henry the Fourth"
2. Paul Yachnin - History, Theatricality, and the "Structural Problem" in the Henry IV Plays

1. Gary Taylor - The Fortunes of Oldcastle
2. David Scott Kastan - [Reforming Falstaff]

1. Peter Saccio - [Shakespearean History and the Reign of Henry IV]
2. Edward Hall - Henry, Prince of Wales
3. Raphael Holinshed - Elizabeth and the Uniting of the Two Houses
4. Anonymous - An Homilee against disobedience and wylful rebellion
5. Raphael Holinshed - The Chronicles of England
6. Samuel Daniel - The Ciuile Wars
7. The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth

Criticism

1. John Dryden - The Composition of a Character
2. Samuel Johnson - [Falstaff]
3. Elizabeth Montagu - [Hal, Falstaff, and Taste]
4. Maurice Morgann - An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff
5. John Dover Wilson - The Falstaff Myth
6. Arthur C. Sprague - Gadshill Revisited
7. E.M.W. Tillyard - The Second Tetralogy
8. Henry Ansagar Kelly - [Providence and Progaganda]
9. Graham Holderness - [Tillyard, History, and Ideology]
10. Sigurd Burckhardt - [Symmetry and Disorder]
11. John Wilders - [Knowledge and Misjudgement]
12. Stephen Greenblatt - [Theater and Power]
13. Scott McMillin - [Performing 1 Henry IV]
14. David Scott Kastan - "The King Hath Many Marching in His Coats," or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
15. C. L. Barber - [Mingling Kings and Clowns]
16. Michael Bristol - [The Battle of Carnival and Lent]
17. Samuel Crowl - [Welles and Falstaff]
18. Patricia Parker - [Fat Lady Falstaff]
19. Coppélia Kahn - [Masculine Identities]
20. Gus Van Sant - [My Own Private Idaho]
21. Susan Wiseman - [Shakespeare in Idaho]
22. Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin - [Gender and Nation]
23. Christopher Highley - [Defining the Nation]
24. Barbara Hodgdon - [Endings]