Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 1
Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
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Bind: Paperback
Year: 2016
Pages: 328
Size: 152 x 228 mm
Publisher: Facts On File Inc.
Published in India by: Viva Books
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Description:
Considered by many to be the most artistically successful of Shakespeare's history plays, Henry IV, Part 1 continues to thrill audiences and readers. This invaluable new study guide to one of Shakespeare's greatest plays contain a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on Henry IV, Part 1, including commentaries by such important critics as Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Montagu, Washington Irving, George Bernard Shaw, A. C. Bradley, E Talbot Donaldson, and many others. Students will also benefit from the additional features in this volume, inclusing an introduction by Harold Bloom, ab accessible summary of the plot, an analysis of several key passages, a comprehensive list of characters, a biography of Shakespeare, essays discussing the main currents of criticism in each century since Shakespeare's time, and more.
Each volume in the Bloom's Shakespeare Through the Ages contains the finest criticism on a particular work from the Bard's oeuvre, selected under the guidance of renowned Shakespearean scholar, Harold Bloom. Intended for students just beginning their exploration of Shakespeare, these invaluable study guides present the best of Shakespeare criticism, from the 17th century to today. In the process, each volume also charts the flow over time of critical discussion of a particular work.
This essential set is unique not only in the range of commentary it provides on each of Shakespeare's greatest works, but also in its emphasis on the greatest critics in our literary tradition — including such critics as John Dryden in the 17th century, Samuel Johnson in the 18th century, William Hazlitt and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the 19th century, A. C. Bradley and William Empson in the 20th century, and many more. Some of the pieces included are full—length essays; others are excerpts designed to present a key point.
Target Audience:
Students and academics of English Literature.
Contents:
Series Introduction • Volume Introduction by Harold Bloom • Biography of William Shakespeare • Summary of Henry IV, Part I • Key Passages in Henry IV, Part I • List of Characters in Henry IV, Part I
CRITICISM THROUGH THE AGES
Henry IV, Part I in the Seventeenth Century • 1601—W. ]. The Whipping of the Satyre • 1667—Samuel Pepys, from The Diary • 1668—John Dryden, from “Of Dramatick Poesie” • 1698—Jeremy Collier, from A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
Henry IV, Part I in the Eighteenth Century • 1702—John Dennis, from A Large Account of the Taste in Poetry, and the Causes of the Degeneracy of It • 1733—William Warburton, from The Works of Shakespeare, Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, with Notes, Exemplary and Critical • 1741—Corbyn Morris, from An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of wits. Raillery, Satire, dnd Ridicule • 1768—Samuel Johnson, from Notes on Shakespeare's Plays • 1769—Elizabeth Montagu, from An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear • 1774—Francis Gentleman, from Bell's Edition of Shakespeare's Plays • 1777—Maurice Morgann, from An Essay on The Dramatic Character of Falstaff • 1789—William Richardson, from Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff, and on His Imitation of Female Characters
Henry IV, Part I in the Nineteenth Century • 1809—August Wilhelm Schlegel, from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • 1810-1811—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Coleridge's conversations on Shakespeare • 1817—William Hazlitt, from ”Henry IV” in Characters in Shakespeare's Plays • 1819—Washington Irving. “The Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap: A Shakespearian Research,” from The Sketch Book • 1850—Henry Giles, from “Falstaff: A Type of Epicurean Life” in Lectures and Essays • 1872—H. N. Hudson, from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters • 1875—Edward Dowden, from Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art • 1891—George Bernard Shaw, from The Quintessence of Ibsenism
Henry IV, Part I in the Twentieth Century • 1902—A. C. Bradley. “The Rejection of Falstaff,” from Oxford Lectures on Poetry • 1914—E. E. Stoll, from “Falstaff” in Modern Philology • 1939—Mark Van Doren. “Henry IV,” from Shakespeare • 1951—Harold C. Goddard. “Henry IV,” from The Meaning of Shakespeare • 1953—William Empson. “Falstaff and Mr. Dover Wilson,” from The Kenyon Review • 1983—A. D. Nuttall. “Henry IV: Prince Hal and Falstaff,” from A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality • 1983—John W. Blanpied. “Rebellion and Design in Henry IV, Part One,” from Time and the Artist in Shakespeare's English Histories • 1985—E. Talbot Donaldson. “Sublimely Ridiculous: The Wife of Bath and Falstaff,” from The Swan at the Well: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer • 1986—C. L. Barber and Richard P. Wheeler. “From Mixed History to Heroic Drama: The Henriad,” from The Whole Journey: Shakespeare's Power of Development • 1987—Harold Bloom. “Introduction,” from Henry IV, Part I (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) • 1992—Harold Bloom. “Introduction,” from Falstaff (Bloom's Major Literary Characters)
Henry IV, Part I in the Twenty-first Century • 2001—Hugh Grady. “Falstaff: Subjectivity between the Carnival and the Aesthetic,” from The Modem Language Review
Bibliography • Acknowledgments • Index
About the Authors:
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and the author of more than 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), The Anxiety of Influence (1973),A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), How to Read and Why (2000), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom Be Found” (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). In 1999, Professor Bloom received the American Academy of Arts and Letters” Gold Medal for Criticism.
