(+ = new to the Third Edition)

+Preface

A Note on the Text

Abbreviated Genealogy of the Mortimers and the House of Lancaster

The Text of 1 Henry IV

Contexts and Sources
COMPOSITION AND PUBLICATION
Excerpt from the 1598 Quarto

ONE PLAY OR TWO?
+Harold Jenkins * The Structural Problem in Shakespeare’s "Henry the Fourth"
+Paul Yachnin * History, Theatricality, and the "Structural Problem" in the Henry IV Plays

FALSTAFF OR OLDCASTLE?
+Gary Taylor * The Fortunes of Oldcastle
+David Scott Kastan * [Reforming Falstaff]

ORIGINS
+Peter Saccio * [Shakespearean History and the Reign of Henry IV]
Edward Hall * Henry, Prince of Wales
Raphael Holinshed * Elizabeth and the Uniting of the Two Houses
Anonymous * An Homilee against disobedience and wylful rebellion
Raphael Holinshed * The Chronicles of England
Samuel Daniel * The Ciuile Wars
The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth

Criticism
+John Dryden * The Composition of a Character
Samuel Johnson * [Falstaff]
+Elizabeth Montagu * [Hal, Falstaff, and Taste]
Maurice Morgann * An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff
John Dover Wilson * The Falstaff Myth
Arthur C. Sprague * Gadshill Revisited
E.M.W. Tillyard * The Second Tetralogy
+Henry Ansagar Kelly * [Providence and Progaganda]
+Graham Holderness * [Tillyard, History, and Ideology]
+Sigurd Burckhardt * [Symmetry and Disorder]
+John Wilders * [Knowledge and Misjudgement]
+Stephen Greenblatt * [Theater and Power]
+Scott McMillin * [Performing 1 Henry IV]
+David Scott Kastan * "The King Hath Many Marching in His Coats," or, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
+C. L. Barber * [Mingling Kings and Clowns]
+Michael Bristol * [The Battle of Carnival and Lent]
+Samuel Crowl * [Welles and Falstaff]
+Patricia Parker * [Fat Lady Falstaff]
+Coppélia Kahn * [Masculine Identities]
+Gus Van Sant * [My Own Private Idaho]
+Susan Wiseman * [Shakespeare in Idaho]
+Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin * [Gender and Nation]
+Christopher Highley * [Defining the Nation]
+Barbara Hodgdon * [Endings]

Selected Bibliography