Henry IV, Parts I and II
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Henry IV, Parts I and II

Critical Essays

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Henry IV, Parts I and II

Critical Essays

About this book

Originally published in 1986. This volume points to the rich variety of critical responses to the Henry IV plays and their complexity. It includes selections from characteristic thought of the neoclassical age, character criticism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, historical and new criticism, theatrical interpretation and other pieces by the likes of Samuel Johnson and W. H. Auden. The editor's introduction explains the collection's relevance and puts the pieces in context. Several chapters look at the character of Falstaff and the changing response and critique through time. Organised chronologically, the collection then ends with two pieces of theatrical criticism.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781317534037
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Henry the Fourth Parts I and II
  6. © 1986 David Bevington
  7. Contents
  8. General Editor’s Preface
  9. Editor’s Preface
  10. Introduction
  11. HENRY IV PARTS I AND II
  12. An Essay Towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humor, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)
  13. Notes from The Plays of William Shakespeare (1765)
  14. An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare, Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets (1769)
  15. An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff (1777)
  16. Remarks on the Character of Falstaff (1786)
  17. Remarks Upon the Characters of Falstaff and His Group (1786)
  18. Henry IV: The Character of Falstaff (1811)
  19. Henry IV in Two Parts (1817)
  20. The English Historical Plays (1875)
  21. Dramatic Opinions and Essays (1907)
  22. The Rejection of Falstaff1 (1902)
  23. Henry IV (1939)
  24. The Falstaff Myth (1943)
  25. Henry IV (1944)
  26. The Prince's Dog (1948)
  27. The Argument of Comedy (1949)
  28. Gadshill Revisited1 (1953)
  29. Character versus Action in Shakespeare (1957)
  30. Moral Metaphor and Dramatic Image (1958)
  31. Rule and Misrule in Henry IV (1959)
  32. Shakespeare's Politics and the Rejection of Falstaff (1959)
  33. A Little More than a Little (1960)
  34. The Turning Away of Prince Hal (1965)
  35. “Swoll'n with Some Other Grief”: Shakespeare's Prince Hal Trilogy (1968)
  36. Casting off the Old Man: History and St. Paul in Henry IV (1970)
  37. Hal and the “Play Extempore” in I Henry IV (1974)
  38. Shakespeare's Comic Sense As It Strikes Us Today: Falstaff and the Protestant Ethic (1978)
  39. Uneasy Lies: Language and History in Shakespeare's Lancastrian Tetralogy (1984)
  40. The Henry IV Plays (1984)
  41. Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 at the Barbican Theatre (1982)
  42. Henry the Fourth Parts I and II: Text and Performance (1983)
  43. Bibliography