Name: King Henry IV Part 1
Rating: 3.593220338983051 (118 reviews)
ISBN: 9781904271352

David Scott Kastan

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's rich exploration of kingship, politics and war and of fathers, sons and coming of age.

Third Series

King Henry IV Part 1

Henry V

Class read. Had some cool moments but made me realize I might like Shakespeares more fictional focused stuff more.

Derek Graf

King Henry IV Part 2

Daniel Kilby

Oddly, given its less prominent use in conflations, I found this more accessible than the first part. But I’ll definitely be watching Phyllida Lloyd’s Donmar Warehouse production tonight on Broadway HD

Maxie Froelicher

Read for the POPSUGAR challenge prompt #4: a book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics

Brittney Wilson

This may be my favourite Shakespeare play so far!

As Henry's throne is threatened by rebel forces, England is divided. The characters reflect these oppositions, with Hal and Hotspur vying for position, and Falstaff leading Hal away from his father and towards excess. During Shakespeare's lifetime Henry IV, Part I was his most reprinted play, and it remains enormously popular with theatregoers and readers. Falstaff still towers among Shakespeare's comic inventions as he did in the late 1590's. David Bevington's introduction discusses the play in both performance and criticism from Shakespeare's time to our own, illustrating the variety of interpretations of which the text is capable. He analyses the play's richly textured language in a detailed commentary on individual words and phrases and clearly explains its historical background.

The Oxford Shakespeare: Henry IV

Kate

I don't think I completely finished this because I read it for a class and ran out of time and it was kind of boring whoops

Lucy Hacker

Beautiful - my favourite Shakespeare; unleash the dogs of war!!

Andrew Matthews

King Henry V (Orchard Classics)

zilver 

when the king of france thinks ur a dumb bitch for wanting to invade his country so he sends u tennis balls and you end up winning a sick battle even though u were outnumbered 5 to 1 but u still feel bad abt urself as a human being so u go fishing for compliments from ur soldiers and they end up hating u so u prank ur right hand man into fighting them because ur actually a dumb bitch but at least u got the girl (and the two countries) in the end

King Henry V (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)

Tess Letasz

Greg Talbot

The stirring continuation of the themes begun in Henry IV, Part One again pits a rebellion within the State and that master of misrule, Falstaff, against the maturing of Prince Hal. Alternating scenes between bawdy tavern and regal court, between revelry and politics, Shakespeare probes at the sources, uses, and responsibilities of power as an old king dies and a young king must choose between a ruler's solemn duty and a merry but dissipated friend, Falstaff. The play represents Shakespeare at the peak of his maturity in writing historical drama and comedy.

King Henry IV Part 1 Third Series

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