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Henry IV Third Edition William Shakespeare; Edited by Gordon McMullan, Kings College, London
ISBN
0-393-97931-8
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paper
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432 pages
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Dec. 2002
The text, with few departures,
is that of the First Quarto (1598) edition of the play. Act
and scene divisions are not indicated in the Quarto; those of
the First Folio have been incorporated, with one exception:
scene ii of Act V has been divided into two scenes, with the
concluding scenes numbered accordingly. The Third Edition includes
expanded annotations.
"Contexts and Sources"
includes dueling arguments on the play’s completeness (one
play or one half of a play?) and the naming of a central character
(Falstaff or Oldcastle?).
"Criticism" includes
twenty-four essays—from E. M. W. Tillyard’s classic
argument of an ordered Shakespearean universe to Graham Holderness’s
rebuttal to Gus Van Sant’s interview regarding 1 Henry
IV as the inspiration for his cult film, My Own Private
Idaho—nineteen of them new to the Third Edition.
The Selected Bibliography has been thoroughly updated.
