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King Henry IV, Part One and Two
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515424567
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 210
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
King Henry IV, Part One and Two brings together Shakespeare's two great history plays of rebellion, kingship, Prince Hal, and Sir John Falstaff. In Part One, King Henry IV faces rebellion from powerful nobles while his son, Prince Hal, wastes his youth in taverns with Falstaff and the disreputable company of Eastcheap. As political conflict moves toward the Battle of Shrewsbury, Hal must begin the painful passage from riotous prince to public heir.
In Part Two, the kingdom remains unsettled, the king's health declines, and Hal moves closer to the crown he cannot avoid. Falstaff, still comic, vivid, and self-deluding, expects that his old companion's accession will bring favour and reward, but Shakespeare turns the exuberance of the tavern world toward one of his most severe reckonings with power, maturity, and public duty. Read together, the two plays form one of the central movements of the Henriad: a double drama of rebellion and succession, comedy and history, appetite and authority, private friendship and royal necessity.
For readers of Shakespeare, English Renaissance drama, the history plays, political theatre, and the literary making of Prince Hal and Falstaff, King Henry IV, Part One and Two is indispensable: expansive, comic, searching, and central to Shakespeare's treatment of honour, legitimacy, inheritance, and the human cost of becoming king.
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