King Henry IV Part 2
King Henry IV Part 2

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-07-28

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 1408151847

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More troubled and troubling than King Henry IV Part 1, the play continues the story of King Henry's decline and Hal's reform. Though Part 2 echoes the structure of the earlier play, it is a darker and more unsettling world, in which even Falstaff's revelry is more tired and cynical, and the once-merry Hal sloughs off his tavern companions to become King Henry V. James C. Bulman's authoritative edition provides a wealth of incisive commentary on this complex history play.

King Henry IV Part 1
King Henry IV Part 1

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1408142953

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David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues that the non-historical, comic plot does not simply parody the historical action but by its existence raises questions about the very nature of history. The full and engaging introduction devotes extensive discussion to the play's language, indicating how its insistent economic vocabulary provides texture for the social concerns of the play and focuses attention on the central relationship between value and political authority.