Henry IV Part One (Barnes & Noble Shakespeare) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

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9781411499706: Henry IV Part One (Barnes & Noble Shakespeare)

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ISBN 10: 1411499700 ISBN 13: 9781411499706

Publisher: Sterling Publishing, 2008

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Henry IV, Part One, by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare series. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world’s foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote.

Each volume in the Barnes & Noble Shakespeare includes:

New Scholarship – Premiere scholars introduce each play with contemporary scholarship. An essay on editing the text provides an in-depth look at the quartos and folios used in the edition.
Contextualizing Essays – Essays on Shakespeare’s England, language, and life, along with essays on performing Shakespeare and significant performances frame the play in both historical and theatrical context for readers. A look at the lasting influence of the play on music, art, film, and dance creates an interdisciplinary framework with which to approach the play.
Better Notes – Through one-word margin definitions, facing-page glosses, and longer end notes after the play, our innovative approach to notes pulls readers away from the text fewer times while providing them with more information and comprehensive analysis.
Further Reading – An annotated bibliography of titles, hand-selected by the introduction author, takes readers beyond the edition for further reading.

The story of Prince Hal's unorthodox preparation for kingship, Henry IV, Part One features one of the most famous comic characters in all of literature-Sir John Falstaff. The editor, Matthew Dimmock, offers a concise picture of the actual historical events dramatized in the play, revealing what Shakespeare changed and why.

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About the Author:

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. Plays were not prized as literature at the time, and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today.

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The emotional core of HENRY IV, Part One is the contrast between men: between King Henry (Julian Glover), his son, Prince Hal (Jamie Glover), and the lovely fat villain, Falstaff (Richard Griffiths). All of these men dramatize their parts masterfully. There is always more to them later in a scene than earlier, and as they interact with one another, different facets of their character are revealed through shifts in delivery that match the imagery in Shakespeare's verse. Even in the heat of battle or the middle of a saloon, with swords clashing or tankards clanking to set the scene, all the voices come through clearly. G.T.B. � AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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