1 Henry IV

Gordon McMullan (D.Phil. Oxford) is Professor of English at King’s College London and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death and The Politics of Unease in the Plays of John Fletcher, and editor of the Arden Shakespeare edition of Henry VIII and the Norton Critical Edition of 1 Henry IV. He is a General Editor of Arden Early Modern Drama. He has edited or co-edited several collections of essays, including Late Style and Its Discontents, Women Making Shakespeare, Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England, and In Arden: Editing Shakespeare.

Preface
A Note on the Text
Abbreviated Genealogy of the Mortimers and the House of Lancaster
The Text of 1 Henry IV
Contexts and Sources
COMPOSITION AND PUBLICATION


Excerpt from the 1598 Quarto


ONE PLAY OR TWO?


Harold Jenkins – The Structural Problem in Shakespeare’s “Henry the Fourth”
Paul Yachnin – History, Theatricality, and the “Structural Problem” in the Henry IV Plays


FALSTAFF OR OLDCASTLE?


Gary Taylor – The Fortunes of Oldcastle
David Scott Kastan – [Reforming Falstaff]


ORIGINS


Peter Saccio – [Shakespearean History and the Reign of Henry IV]
Edward Hall – Henry, Prince of Wales
Raphael Holinshed – Elizabeth and the Uniting of the Two Houses
Anonymous – An Homilee against disobedience and wylful rebellion
Raphael Holinshed – The Chronicles of England
Samuel Daniel – The Ciuile Wars
The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth


Criticism


John Dryden – The Composition of a Character
Samuel Johnson – [Falstaff]
Elizabeth Montagu – [Hal, Falstaff, and Taste]
Maurice Morgann – An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff
John Dover Wilson – The Falstaff Myth
Arthur C. Sprague – Gadshill Revisited
E.M.W. Tillyard – The Second Tetralogy
Henry Ansagar Kelly – [Providence and Progaganda]
Graham Holderness – [Tillyard, History, and Ideology]
Sigurd Burckhardt – [Symmetry and Disorder]
John Wilders – [Knowledge and Misjudgement]
Stephen Greenblatt – [Theater and Power]
Scott McMillin – [Performing 1 Henry IV]
David Scott Kastan – “The King Hath Many Marching in His Coats,” or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
C. L. Barber – [Mingling Kings and Clowns]
Michael Bristol – [The Battle of Carnival and Lent]
Samuel Crowl – [Welles and Falstaff]
Patricia Parker – [Fat Lady Falstaff]
Coppélia Kahn – [Masculine Identities]
Gus Van Sant – [My Own Private Idaho]
Susan Wiseman – [Shakespeare in Idaho]
Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin – [Gender and Nation]
Christopher Highley – [Defining the Nation]
Barbara Hodgdon – [Endings]


Selected Bibliography