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| William Shakespeare. Henry IV, Part I. | Elibron Classics, 2001, 115 pages.
ISBN 9780543898609 paperback
ISBN 9780543898593 hardcover |
| Part I |
| This edition is published in 0 volumes sold separately. |
| | |  | Despite its title, this history play is actually the story of young Price Hal, who frequents a bar in Eastcheap while his father conducts important affairs of state. When a rebellion led by several royal advisors threatens to unseat the recently throned Henry IV, Prince Hal has little choice but to accept his princely duties and help to quash the rebel forces at the Battle of Shrewsbury. Simultaneously a military thriller and an earthy comedy, Henry IV, Part I will be remembered forever as the play that introduced the world to the antics of Sir John Falstaff. |
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| William Shakespeare (1564-1616), list of works | |  | | Most of what is known about William Shakespeare's life derives either from legal records or from spurious anecdotes. (Differing accounts of one eight-year period list his occupation as soldier, stable-boy, schoolmaster, and thief). Regardless of how he began, he ended as a playwright "not of an age, but for all time"; his influence is as strongly felt today as it was four centuries ago. |
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