Henry IV, Part 2After defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal’s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV’s dream of a lasting dynasty. Shakespeare’s portrait of the prodigal son’s journey from youth to maturity embraces the full panorama of society. Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations. Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century. |
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Page vii
... characters , whereas long stretches of the Henry IV plays are in prose , the medium of the common people . The scenes with Justice Shallow in his Gloucestershire orchard are the closest that Shakespeare ever came to a stage ...
... characters , whereas long stretches of the Henry IV plays are in prose , the medium of the common people . The scenes with Justice Shallow in his Gloucestershire orchard are the closest that Shakespeare ever came to a stage ...
Page xiv
... character of Prince Hal , Shakespeare perhaps as his own riposte to Marlowe - set out to create a new and distinctive kind of " good Machiavel " : a political realist who is prepared to take diffi- cult , even brutal , decisions when it ...
... character of Prince Hal , Shakespeare perhaps as his own riposte to Marlowe - set out to create a new and distinctive kind of " good Machiavel " : a political realist who is prepared to take diffi- cult , even brutal , decisions when it ...
Page xvii
... character of Falstaff was originally an irreverent portrait . Why did Shakespeare give his fictional Falstaff a past that began in the ser- vice of Mowbray ? At one level , it links him with opposition to the Lancastrian ascendancy ...
... character of Falstaff was originally an irreverent portrait . Why did Shakespeare give his fictional Falstaff a past that began in the ser- vice of Mowbray ? At one level , it links him with opposition to the Lancastrian ascendancy ...
Page xviii
William Shakespeare Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen. changed because the character was regarded as an insult to the memory of the proto - Protestant Lollard of that name : " for Oldcastle died a martyr , " says the epilogue to Part II ...
William Shakespeare Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen. changed because the character was regarded as an insult to the memory of the proto - Protestant Lollard of that name : " for Oldcastle died a martyr , " says the epilogue to Part II ...
Page xxiv
... characters are omitted or corrections are necessary , this is indicated by square brackets ( e.g. " [ and Attendants ] " ) . Exit is sometimes silently normal- ized to Exeunt and Manet anglicized to " remains . " We trust Folio posi ...
... characters are omitted or corrections are necessary , this is indicated by square brackets ( e.g. " [ and Attendants ] " ) . Exit is sometimes silently normal- ized to Exeunt and Manet anglicized to " remains . " We trust Folio posi ...
Contents
Textual Notes | 121 |
ScenebyScene Analysis | 130 |
The RSC and Beyond | 144 |
Shakespeares Career in the Theater | 192 |
A Chronology | 206 |
A Chronology | 211 |
References | 219 |
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Act 5 Scene actors ARCHBISHOP OF YORK audience battle battle of Shrewsbury blood brother Bullcalf Bullingbrook captain character CLARENCE Coleville comedy coronation court cousin crown Davy dead death disease DOLL TEARSHEET doth Earl Eastcheap England Enter Exeunt Exit FALSTAFF SHALLOW father fear Folio give GLOUCESTER Gloucestershire grace grief Hal's Harry HASTINGS hath head heaven Henry VI history plays honour HOSTESS QUICKLY Hotspur KING HENRY king's Lancaster London look LORD BARDOLPH LORD CHIEF JUSTICE lord of Westmorland majesty Master Shallow merry Michael Pennington Mouldy Mowbray night noble Northumberland peace Percy performance Pistol plays on sense POINS pray PRINCE HENRY Prince John production Quarto rascal rebels Richard Richard II royal Rumour running scene sexual Shakespeare SHALLOW FALSTAFF Shrewsbury sick Silence Sir John Falstaff speak stage sword tavern tell theater thee thou art tragedy Warwick Westmorland wilt word