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.

• PrefaceA Note on the TextAbbreviated Genealogy of the Mortimers and the House of LancasterThe Text of 1 Henry IVContexts and SourcesCOMPOSITION AND PUBLICATIONExcerpt from the 1598 QuartoONE 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 PlaysFALSTAFF OR OLDCASTLE?Gary Taylor – The Fortunes of OldcastleDavid Scott Kastan – [Reforming Falstaff]ORIGINSPeter Saccio – [Shakespearean History and the Reign of Henry IV]Edward Hall – Henry, Prince of WalesRaphael Holinshed – Elizabeth and the Uniting of the Two HousesAnonymous – An Homilee against disobedience and wylful rebellionRaphael Holinshed – The Chronicles of EnglandSamuel Daniel – The Ciuile WarsThe Famous Victories of Henry the FifthCriticismJohn Dryden – The Composition of a CharacterSamuel Johnson – [Falstaff]Elizabeth Montagu – [Hal, Falstaff, and Taste]Maurice Morgann – An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John FalstaffJohn Dover Wilson – The Falstaff MythArthur C. Sprague – Gadshill RevisitedE.M.W. Tillyard – The Second TetralogyHenry 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