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  REFERENCES

  1. Scott McMillin, Shakespeare in Performance: Henry IV, Part One (1991), p. 1.

  2. A reference to The Second Part of Henry the Fourth or Henry V in Nicholas Breton’s A Post with a Packet of Mad Letters (Part I, 1603).

  3. James Wright, Historia Historionica (1699).

  4. Colley Cibber, An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber (1740), p. 87.

  5. Thomas Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies (1784, repr. 1971), pp. 124–8.

  6. Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies, pp. 127–8.

  7. Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies, pp. 136–41.

  8. Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies, p. 153.

  9. Laurence Selenick, The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre (2000), p. 270.

  10. William Hazlitt, Examiner, 13 October 1816.

  11. The Athenaeum, No. 902, 8 February 1845, p. 158.

  12. Harold Child, “The Stage-History of King Henry IV,” in The First Part of the History of Henry IV, ed. J. Dover Wilson (1946), pp. xxix–xlvi.

  13. Theatrical Journal, Vol. 7, No. 346, 1 August 1846, pp. 243–4.

  14. Henry Morley, diary entry for 14 May 1864 in The Journal of a London Playgoer from 1851 to 1866 (1866), pp. 330–9.

  15. Morley diary entry for 1 October 1864, pp. 344–5.

  16. William Archer, The Theatrical “World” of 1896 (1897, repr. 1971), pp. 141–50.

  17. The Athenaeum, No. 3577, 16 May 1896, p. 659.

  18. G. B. Shaw, The Saturday Review, London, Vol. 81, No. 2116, 16 May 1896, pp. 500–2.

  19. William Butler Yeats, “At Stratford-upon-Avon” (1901), in his Essays and Introductions (1961), p. 97.

  20. Herbert Farjeon, “King Henry the Fourth—Part I: Mr Robey’s Falstaff,” in his The Shakespearean Scene: Dramatic Criticisms (1949), p. 92.

  21. Child, “The Stage-History of King Henry IV,” pp. xxix–xlvi.

  22. Stephen Potter, New Statesman and Nation, 6 October 1945, p. 227.

  23. Audrey Williamson, “The New Triumvirate (1944–47),” in her Old Vic Drama: A Twelve Years’ Study of Plays and Players (1948), pp. 172–212.

  24. Anthony Quayle, in a foreword to Shakespeare’s Histories at Stratford, 1951 by J. Dover Wilson and T. C. Worsley (1970).

  25. T. C. Worsley, New Statesman and Nation, 3 November 1951, pp. 489–90.

  26. T. C. Worsley, Shakespeare’s Histories at Stratford, 1951 (1970), p. 31.

  27. Worsley, New Statesman and Nation, 3 November 1951, pp. 489–90.

  28. T. C. Worsley, New Statesman and Nation, 7 May 1955, p. 646.

  29. Eric Keown, Punch, 11 May 1955, pp. 593–4.

  30. Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington, The English Shakespeare Company: The Story of the Wars of the Roses, 1986–1989 (1990), pp. 28–9, quoted in Barbara Hodgdon, Shakespeare in Performance: Henry IV, Part Two (1993), pp. 124–5.

  31. Donald Malcolm, New Yorker, 30 April 1960, pp. 86–9.

  32. Ben Brantley, New York Times Current Events Edition, 23 December 1993.

  33. Ben Brantley, New York Times, 21 November 2003.

  34. Paul Taylor, Independent, 6 May 2005.

  35. Taylor, Independent, 6 May 2005.

  36. Taylor, Independent, 6 May 2005.

  37. McMillin, Shakespeare in Performance, p. 88.

  38. McMillin, Shakespeare in Performance, p. 95.

  39. McMillin, Shakespeare in Performance, p. 100.

  40. David Troughton, “Bolingbroke in Richard II, and Henry IV,” in Robert Smallwood, ed., Players of Shakespeare 6 (2004).

  41. Michael Billington, Country Life, 6 June 1991.

  42. Janet Clare, “Henry IV Parts 1 & 2,” in Keith Parsons and Pamela Mason, eds., Shakespeare in Performance (1995), p. 72.

  43. Robert Speight, Shakespeare Quarterly, 15, 4 (1964).

  44. London Times, 17 April 1964.

  45. David E. Jones, Drama Survey, 4, 1 (Spring 1965).

  46. Ronald Bryden, New Statesman, 24 April 1964.

  47. Irving Wardle, London Times, 25 June 1975.

  48. John Elsom, Listener, 3 June 1975.

  49. Paul Taylor, Independent, 4 June 1991.

  50. Taylor, Independent, 4 June 1991.

  51. Allen Tate (1899–1979, American poet and critic), “Non Omnis Moriar.”

  52. John Peter, London Sunday Times, 2 June 1991.

  53. Harold Hobson, London Sunday Times, 29 June 1975.

  54. London Times, 17 April 1964.

  55. Desmond Barrit, “Falstaff,” in Smallwood, Players of Shakespeare 6.

  56. Country Life, 6 June 1991.

  57. London Sunday Times, 2 June 1991.

  58. Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 3 June 1991.

  59. Elsom, Listener, 3 June 1975.

  60. Hobson, Sunday Times, 29 June 1975.

  61. Wardle, London Times, 25 June 1975.

  62. Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 2.

  63. John Elsom, Listener, 3 July 1975.

  64. Troughton, “Bolingbroke in Richard II, and Henry IV.”

  65. Peter Thomson, Shakespeare Survey, 29 (1976).

  66. Clare, “Henry IV Parts 1 & 2,” p. 74.

  67. Taylor, Independent, 4 June 1991.

  68. Emrys James, Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 27 (Autumn 1977).

  69. Peter, Sunday Times, 2 June 1991.

  70. Troughton, “Bolingbroke in Richard II, and Henry IV.”

  71. Benedict Nightingale, New Statesman, 6 February 1976.

  72. Roger Warren, Shakespeare Quarterly, 34, 1 (Spring 1983).

  73. Robert Smallwood, Critical Quarterly, 25, 1 (Spring 1983).

  74. Barrit, “Falstaff.”

  75. Kate Bassett, Daily Telegraph, 3 July 2000.

  76. London Times, 4 July 2000.

  77. Nightingale, New Statesman, 6 February 1976.

  78. Elsom, Listener, 3 July 1975.

  79. Clare, “Henry IV Parts 1 & 2,” p. 78.

  80. Elsom, Listener, 3 July 1975.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND

  PICTURE CREDITS

  Preparation of “Henry IVin Performance” was assisted by a generous grant from the CAPITAL Centre (Creativity and Performance in Teaching and Learning) of the University of Warwick for research in the RSC archive at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded a term’s research leave that enabled Jonathan Bate to work on “The Director’s Cut.”

  Picture research by Michelle Morton. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for assistance with picture research (special thanks to Helen Hargest) and reproduction fees.

  Images of RSC productions are supplied by the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, Stratford-upon-Avon. This Library, maintained by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, holds the most important collection of Shakespeare material in the UK, including the Royal Shakespeare Company’s official archive. It is open to the public free of charge.

  For more information see www.shakespeare.org.uk.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1896) Reproduced by permission of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

  Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier (1945) John Vickers courtesy of the University of Bristol Theatre Collection

  Directed by John Kidd and Anthony Quayle (1951) Angus McBean © Royal Shakespeare Company

  Directed by Michael Attenborough (2000) John Haynes © Royal Shakespeare Company

  Directed by Terry Hands (1975) Joe Cocks Studio Collection © Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

  Directed by Michael Bogdanov (1987) © Donald Cooper/photostage.co.uk

  Directed by Adrian Noble (1991) Joe Cocks Studio Collection © Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

  Directed by Michael Boyd (2007) Ellie Kurttz © Royal Shakespeare Company

  Reconstructed Elizabethan Playhouse © Charcoalblue

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  List of parts irregular humorists lawless/disorderly men with wayward temperaments

  Induction prologue. The Second Part of Henry the Fourth is continuous with The First Part, taking place immediately after the battle of Shrewsbury

  Rumour allegorical figure traditionally covered in painted tongues

  * marry by (the Virgin) Mary.

  * Prithee I pray thee.

  * God’s liggens the precise meaning is unclear.

  ** By’r’lady By our lady, i.e. the Virgin Mary.

  Porter gatekeeper

  1 keeps guards

  3 What who

  4 attend wait for/wait upon

  5 is has

  orchard garden

  6 Please it if it please

  10 stratagem violent deed/scheme, plot

  11 wild savage, rebellious, unruly

  12 high feeding overly rich food

  13 bears down tramples

  15 certain definite

  16 an if

  will is willing, wishes it

  19 your son Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur)

  20 Blunts Sir Walter Blunt was killed by

  Douglas in 1 Henry IV, Act 5 Scene 1; another Blunt is only mentioned in one of the play’s sources

  21 Prince John Prince Henry’s younger brother

  22 Westmorland Ralph Neville, a kinsman of the king’s

  Stafford in 1 Henry IV, Act 5 Scene 1, the Earl of Stafford is said to have been killed in the battle

  hulk big, unwieldy person (literally, large ship)

  Sir John i.e. Falstaff

  25 followed supported by loyal troops

  27 fortunes successes

  28 How…derived? What is the source of your information?

  32 rendered gave, related

  33 Travers his name suggests his function to contradict Lord Bardolph

  35 over-rode overtook

  37 haply perhaps

  retail recount

  39 Sir John Umfrevile either the name originally given to Lord Bardolph’s character in an earlier version of the scene, or the

  gentleman who also gave Bardolph good news of the battle

  41 Outrode rode faster than, left behind

  42 forspent exhausted

  43 breathe allow to rest and recover breath

  bloodied i.e. from the constant digging of spurs

  44 Chester town in the northwest of England

  48 gave…head let him go freely, without restraint of the bridle

  able recovered/strong/ easy to handle

  49 able capable/powerful

  50 jade worn-out horse

  51 rowel-head spiked wheel at the end of a spur

  52 devour the way eat up the road

  53 Staying waiting for

  59 have…day has not won the battle

  60 point lace for fastening clothing, i.e. something of small value

  61 barony land held by a baron

  63 instances evidence

  65 hilding worthless

  67 at a venture without due consideration/in a speculative manner

  Morton another servant of Northumberland’s; his name suggests death

  68 title-leaf title page of a book describing the contents

  70 strand shore, beach

  flood sea

  71 witnessed usurpation visible signs of its invasion (left by the retreating tide)

  78 apter more likely/more suitable

  79 Even just

  81 Drew drew aside, opened

  Priam King of

  Troy, killed in the Trojan war against the Greeks

  curtain i.e. of his bed

  83 ere before

  87 Stopping filling

  88 stop…indeed prevent me from ever hearing anything again, i.e. kill me

  97 is chanced has happened

  98 divination prophecy, intuition

  100 doing … wrong i.e. by telling me that I’m mistaken (a servant should not contradict his master)

  101 gainsaid contradicted

  102 spirit instinct, intelligence

  105 hold’st maintain, believe

  108 belie slander

  111 losing office profitless task

  112 sullen mournful

  113 knolling ringing the funeral bell for

  116 would wish

  118 quittance repayment (of blows)

  out-breathed breathless

  120 never-daunted never overcome with fear

  122 In few in short

  124 bruited reported

  125 best tempered of finest quality, most hardened (literally refers to the treating of a sword to give it strength and resilience)

  126 mettle character, courage plays on “metal”

  steeled hardened, literally overlaid with steel

  127 abated blunted/diminished

  130 Upon enforcement under compulsion, with force applied

  131 heavy in weighed down/saddened by

  132 Lend…fear i.e. despite the weight of their loss, fear made them light

  135 Worcester Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, Northumberland’s brother

  137 well-labouring hard-working

  138 th’appearance…king several men, including Sir Walter Blunt and the Earl of Stafford, had been dressed like the king to act as decoys on the battlefield

  139’Gan…stomach began to lessen his courage

  grace…backs i.e. Douglas joined those fleeing the battle

  grace dignify, sanction

  143 power armed force

  encounter meet in battle

  144 Lancaster Prince John (so called because he was born in Lancaster)

  145 at in

  147 physic medicine

  148 Having…well i.e. had I been healthy this bad news would have made me ill; being ill, it has gone some way toward giving me strength

  152 Impatient…fit unable to endure his attack of fever

  153 keeper nurse

  154 Weakened “weak’ned” in Folio, perhaps playing on “weak-kneed”

  155 nice effeminate, unmanly

  156 scaly gauntlet armored glove covered with plates of steel, giving it the appearance of scales

  157 coif nightcap

  158 wanton self-indulgent, effeminate
r />   159 fleshed made eager after having their appetites whetted (as hunting dogs are fed raw meat to excite them)

  161 ragged’st roughest, harshest

  166 contention strife

  ling’ring act painfully protracted struggle/drawn-out part of a play

  167 Cain son of Adam and Eve who in killing his brother Abel became the world’s first murderer

  169 rude violent/unpolished

  172 complices confederates, supporters

  173 give o’er give way, give in

  174 passion outburst of emotion

  perforce necessarily

  175 cast th’event calculated the likely outcome

  176 summed added up

  177 make head raise an army

  presurmise suspicion beforehand

  178 dole dealing out (may play on “dole,” i.e. sorrow)

  drop fall, die

  179 edge i.e. narrow bridge/sword-edge

  181 advised aware

  capable Of susceptible to

  182 forward eager, adventurous, rash

  183 trade of trafficking in

  ranged was positioned

  185 apprehended anticipated/feared

  186 stiff-borne proudly, stubbornly carried

  188 like likely

  189 engagèd to involved in

  191 if…one the odds of coming out alive were ten to one

  193 respect consideration

  194 o’erset overcome

  195 all put forth all set out (as if going to sea)/stake everything

  196’Tis…time i.e. we shouldn’t delay

  198 gentle wellborn

  up prepared for battle

  199 well-appointed powers well-equipped forces

  200 double surety i.e. as he has both spiritual and temporal authority

  201 corpse bodies (not the souls)

  202 But mere

  205 queasiness uncertainty, reluctance

  206 As…potions like men who drink medicine

  210 religion i.e. a religious cause

  211 Supposedknown to be

  213 enlarge his rising fortify, justify his uprising

  with…stones by recalling the murder of Richard II at Pomfret (Pontefract) Castle; Richard had been usurped by his cousin, Henry Bullingbrook, now Henry IV

  216 bestride stand over

  217 Bullingbrook i.e. Henry IV

  218 more and less those of both high and low rank

  222 aptest best, readiest

  223 posts messengers

  1 Sirrah sir (used to social inferiors)

 

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