Henry IV, Part I / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Neil Heims.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Heims, Neil.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Bloom's Shakespeare through the ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Henry IV--Part 1--Examinations--Study guides.

Shakespeare, William.

Henry IV, King of England, 1367-1413--In literature.

Henry.

Henry IV, King of England, 1367-1413.

Genre:

Study guides.

Physical Description:

xii, 316 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2008]

Summary:

Considered by many to be the most artistically successful of Shakespeare's history plays, Henry IV, Part I continues to thrill audiences and readers. This invaluable new study guide to one of Shakespeare's greatest plays contains a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on Henry IV, Part I, including commentaries by such important critics as Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Montagu, Washington Irving, George Bernard Shaw, A. C. Bradley, E. Talbot Donaldson, and many others. Students will also benefit from the additional features in this volume, including an introduction by Harold Bloom, an accessible summary of the plot, an analysis of several key passages, a comprehensive list of characters, a biography of Shakespeare, essays discussing the main currents of criticism in each century since Shakespeare's time, and more.

Contents:

Criticism Through the Ages 45

Henry IV, Part I in the Seventeenth Century 47

1601-The Whipping of the Satyre / W.J. 49

1667-from The Diary / Samuel Pepys 49

1668-from "Of Dramatick Poesie" / John Dryden 50

1698-from A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage / Jeremy Collier 50

Henry IV, Part I in the Eighteenth Century 53

1702-from A Large Account of the Taste in Poetry, and the Causes of the Degeneracy of It / John Dennis 55

1733-from The Works of Shakespeare, Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, with Notes, Exemplary and Critical / William Warburton 56

1741-from An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule / Corbyn Morris 56

1768-from Notes on Shakespeare's Plays / Samuel Johnson 59

1769-from An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear / Elizabeth Montagu 60

1774-from Bell's Edition of Shakespeare's Plays / Francis Gentleman 61

1777-from An Essay on The Dramatic Character of Falstaff / Maurice Morgann 61

1789-from Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff, and on His Imitation of Female Characters / William Richardson 77

Henry IV, Part I in the Nineteenth Century 79

1809-from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature / August Wilhelm Schlegel 81

1810-1811-from Coleridge's conversations on Shakespeare / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 83

1817-from "Henry IV" in Characters in Shakespeare's Plays / William Hazlitt 84

1819-"The Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap: A Shakespearian Research," from The Sketch Book / Washington Irving 88

1850-from "Falstaff: A Type of Epicurean Life" in Lectures and Essays / Henry Giles 96

1872-from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters / H. N. Hudson 103

1875-from Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art / Edward Dowden 104

1891-from The Quintessence of Ibsenism / George Bernard Shaw 107

Henry IV, Part I in the Twentieth Century 109

1902-"The Rejection of Falstaff," from Oxford Lectures on Poetry / A. C. Bradley 112

1914-from "Falstaff" in Modern Philology / E. E. Stoll 129

1939-"Henry IV," from Shakespeare / Mark Van Doren 138

1951-"Henry IV," from The Meaning of Shakespeare / Harold C. Goddard 153

1953-"Falstaff and Mr. Dover Wilson," from The Kenyon Review / William Empson 167

1983-"Henry IV: Prince Hal and Falstaff," from A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality / A. D. Nuttall 200

1983-"Rebellion and Design in Henry IV, Part One," from Time and the Artist in Shakespeare's English Histories / John W. Blanpied 217

1985-"Sublimely Ridiculous: The Wife of Bath and Falstaff," from The Swan at the Well: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer / E. Talbot Donaldson 246

1986-"From Mixed History to Heroic Drama: The Henriad," from The Whole Journey: Shakespeare's Power of Development / C. L. Barber, Richard P. Wheeler 255

1987-"Introduction," from Henry IV, Part I (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) / Harold Bloom 273

1992-"Introduction," from Falstaff (Bloom's Major Literary Characters) / Harold Bloom 279

Henry IV, Part I in the Twenty-first Century 285

2001-"Falstaff: Subjectivity between the Carnival and the Aesthetic," from The Modern Language Review / Hugh Grady 285.

Notes:

This study guide contains a selection of criticism through the centuries on the play, plus an accessible summary, analysis of key passages, a comprehensive list of characters, and a biography of Shakespeare.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-310) and index.

ISBN:

9780791096291

0791096297

OCLC:

183879814