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Henry IV, Part 1 By William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second of Shakespeare's tetralogy that deals with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV (2 plays), and Henry V. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon against the Douglas late in 1402 and ends with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of 1403. From the start it has been an extremely popular play both with the public and the critics.

genre : Poems & Drama

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Henry IV, Part 1

William Shakespeare

Published: 1597

Categorie(s): Non-Fiction, History, Fiction, Drama

Source: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/ About Shakespeare:

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest examples in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623 two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world. Source: Wikipedia

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Act I

SCENE I. London. The palace.

> Enter KING HENRY, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, the EARL of WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and others

KING HENRY IV

> So shaken as we are, so wan with care,

> Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,

> And breathe short-winded accents of new broils

> To be commenced in strands afar remote.

> No more the thirsty entrance of this soil

> Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood;

> Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields,

> Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs

> Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes,

> Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,

> All of one nature, of one substance bred,

> Did lately meet in the intestine shock

> And furious close of civil butchery

> Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks,

> March all one way and be no more opposed

> Against acquaintance, kindred and allies:

> The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,

> No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends,

> As far as to the sepulchre of Christ,

> Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross

> We are impressed and engaged to fight,

> Forthwith a power of English shall we levy;

> Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb

> To chase these pagans in those holy fields

> Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet

> Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd

> For our advantage on the bitter cross.