Henry IV, Part I

Henry IV, Part I Criticism

• Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (Vol. 57)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • King Henry IV
    • The Henry IV Plays
    • Shakespeare's Historical Imagination
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Hal and the ‘Play Extempore’ in I Henry IV
    • The Fatness of Falstaff: Shakespeare and Character
  • Uneasy Lies: Language and History in Shakespeare's Lancastrian Tetralogy
  • Criticism: Reformation, Redemption, And The Rejection Of Falstaff
    • Casting off the Old Man: History and St. Paul in Henry IV
    • Shakespeare's Comic Sense as It Strikes Us Today: Falstaff and the Protestant Ethic
    • Reforming Prince Hal: The Sovereign Inheritor in 2 Henry IV
    • The Hybrid Reformations of Shakespeare's Second Henriad
  • Criticism: Unity
    • Shakespeare's Poor Relation: 2 Henry IV
    • Henry IV, Part I: The Two Faces of Revolt
  • Further Reading
• Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (Vol. 69)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • Theme and Structure in King Henry IV, Part I.
    • Introduction to The Second Part of King Henry IV
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Henry IV: From Satirist to Satiric Butt
    • Hal: The Mirror of All Christian Kings
    • Renaissance Pederasty and Pedagogy: The ‘Case’ of Shakespeare's Falstaff
    • Hotspur's Antifeminine Prejudice in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • The BBC's Henriad
    • Civil War Henry IV with a Punk for a Prince
    • Review of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2
    • Review of Henry IV, Part 2
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Henry IV, Part 2: ‘Unfathered Heirs and Loathly Births of Nature.’
    • The Third Face of the Elizabethan Mars: The Fallacy of Heroism in 1 Henry IV.
    • The Future of History in Henry IV.
    • Humoral Psychology in Shakespeare's Henriad
  • Further Reading
• Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (Vol. 80)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • Introduction to The Oxford Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part I
    • Introduction to Henry IV, Parts One and Two
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • The Growth of Hal
    • ‘To Demand the Time of Day’: Prince Hal
    • Falstaff—A Trickster Figure
    • Recovering the Terror of Trifles
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of Henry IV, Part 1
    • Review of Henry IV, Part 1
    • Review of Henry IV, Part 2
    • Review of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2
    • Falstaff Gets the Sack
  • Criticism: Themes
    • The Idea of Time in Shakespeare's Second Historical Tetralogy
    • History and the Nation in Richard II and Henry IV.
    • ‘Crack'd Crowns’ and Counterfeit Sovereigns: The Crisis of Value in 1 Henry IV.
  • Further Reading
• Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (Vol. 90)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • Puritanism in Comic History: Exposing Royalty in the Henry Plays
    • Henry IV and Proleptic Mimesis
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Prince Hal: Mirror of Success
    • ‘Killed with Hard Opinions’: Oldcastle, Falstaff, and the Reformed Text of 1 Henry IV.
    • Perfect Answers: Religious Inquisition, Falstaffian Wit
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Human Life at Its Richest
    • May the Fourth Be with You
    • Shakespeare's Prince Hal, Told without Emotion
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Extending Credit in the Henry IV Plays
    • ‘The Unquiet Time’ of 2 Henry IV: Festivity and Order in Flux
  • Further Reading
• Festivity and Topicality in the Coventry Scene of 1 Henry IV
• Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (Vol. 39)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Now of All Humours: Henry VI, Parts I and II
    • Discourse of Occasion in Henry IV
  • Kingship
    • Virtue and Kingship in Shakespeare's Henry IV
    • Henry IV: Counterfeit Kings and Creative Succession
    • Kingship of the Silent King: A Study of Shakespeare's Bolingbroke
  • Language And Rhetoric
    • Bound to Rule
  • Characterization
    • Henry IV
    • The Characterization of the King in 1 Henry IV
    • Shakespeare Makes History: 2 Henry IV
  • Further Reading
• Carnival and Plot in King Henry IV
• Pilgrims of Grace: Henry IV Historicized
  • Introduction
  • Past And Present
  • Rebellion
  • Grace
  • Rebuke
  • Pardon
• History-Making in the Henriad
• The Prince's Dog: Falstaff and the Perils of Speech-Prefixity
  • Introduction
  • Methodological Incipit
  • Critique
  • Coda: The Thin Man
• The Famous Analyses of Henry the Fourth
• Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (Vol. 49)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • History into Drama: The Perspective of 1 Henry IV
    • 'Let the End Try the Man': 1 and 2 Henry IV
  • Law And Justice
    • The True Prince and the False Thief: Prince Hal and the Shift of Identity
    • Shakespeare's Henry IV: A New Prince in a New Principality
    • The Prudence and Kinship of Prince Hal and John of Lancaster in 2 Henry IV
    • Old Father Antic the Law: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2
    • Hotspur's Prisoners and the Laws of War in I Henry IV
  • Ambiguous Perspectives
    • Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and Its Subversion, Henry IV and Henry V
    • Reformation and Its Counterfeit: The Recovery of Meaning in Henry IV, Part One
    • The Adolescent and the Strangest Fellow: Comic and Morally Serious Perspectives in 1 Henry IV
  • Literary Genre
    • Falstaff's Encore
    • The Tragic Substructure of the Henry IV Plays
  • Further Reading