Wanted to use the captives to ransom the uncle of Edmund Mortimer, a Northumberland and his son, Hotspur (Henry Percy the Younger), As Henry IV,īolingbroke further angered Northumberland when the king's forcesĪrrested captives of Northumberland, who had been protecting the Mortimer was the great-great grandson of King Edward III. The Percys argued that theĮarl of March, Edmund Mortimer, should have acceded to the throne. Among them were previous supporters of Bolingbroke, including Henry Percy, the 1st Earl Other citizens maintained that Bolingbroke illegally seized theĬrown. Many of Richard's supporters blamed Bolingbroke for Richard'sĭeath. Richard died as a prisoner in PontefractĬastle. Henry IV Part II continues the story of Henry IV Part I and Richard II.Īfter Parliament deposed Richard II, Henry Bolingbroke seized the Pyrgopolynices in Miles Gloriosus, a play by the Roman writer Plautus (254-184 BC). There is a possibility that Shakespeare based theĬharacter Falstaff on a boastful but cowardly soldier named Shakespeare alsoĭrew upon information in Samuel Daniel's The First Four Books of the Civil Wars Between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York, Shakespeare used the second edition, published in 1587. The first edition was published in 1577 in two volumes. (popularly known as Holinshed’s Chronicles), by Raphael Holinshed and Shakespeare based Henry IV Part II primarily on accounts in The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland This study guide omits the comma, since Part II is a restrictive term to distinguish the play from Henry IV Part I. It is also sometimes written with a comma: Henry IV, Part II. Henry IV Part II is sometimes referred to as 2 Henry IV. The printer and publisher was William Jaggard.
FALSTAFF QUOTES HENRY IV PART 1 FULL
Published in full in 1623 as part of the First Folio, the firstĪuthorized collection of Shakespeare's plays. This edition was printed by ValentineĪndrew Wise and William Aspley. It was published in 1600 in a quarto edition thatĭoes not include the first scene of the thirdĪct. The scenes involving Sir John Falstaff and his drinking Opponents, and the accession to the throne of his son, Prince Henry, as King Play about the last days of England's King Henry IV, warfare with his
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