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The themes of leadership and honour in the murky political world of King Henry IV (by Dr Jennifer Minter) In a world rife with social and political turmoil, William Shakespeare’s King Henry IV part 1 is, at its core, a commentary on the qualities that are most important to a successful ruler.To wash this blood from off my guilty hand.This page contains links to the free original Henry IV Part 1 full text by Shakespeare. That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow:King Henry IV: Part One. Henry IV Part 1 character analysis, with dissections of character motivations and journeys, as well as the significance of each character in the text as a whole A breakdown of the major themes and ideas in Henry IV Part 1 A comprehensive quote bank, arranged by key themes so you know what evidence to use for any essayThe linked sequence of Richard II (directed by Rupert Goold), Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (filmed by Sir Richard Eyre) and Henry V (under Thea Sharrock's direction) tell a sequential story, with.
145-146), now in command of King Henry's forces on the western front.I. Mortimer, Earl of March, rightful heir to the throne of England at the time of King Richard's death (see genealogical table in note on I. During the year which has intervened, civil wars have prevented the fulfilment of this vow.I. Our article on Shakespeare & early modern English.
Shakespeare's error is due to a mistake in punctuation in Holinshed's list of Hotspur's prisoners, which reads: 'Mordacke earle of Fife, son to the governour Archembald earle Dowglas, etc.' A comma was omitted after 'governour,' and Shakespeare understood that 'Archembald' was 'governour.'I. Mordake, the Earl of Fife, was not son to beaten Douglas, but to the Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland. The Percies (see Dramatis Personæ) had been King Henry's chief supporters in his usurpation of the throne.I. The youngest member of the great Percy family, now in command of the king's forces on the northern front.
Malevolent to you in all aspects. His refusal was, at first, a thoughtless and impetuous act and the refusal once made, the shrewd Worcester saw reasons for influencing his nephew to stand by this first hasty reply to the king's demand.I. Iii.) and the fact that neither Hotspur nor his uncle, Worcester, the experienced diplomat, ever suggests that Hotspur has a legal right to his prisoners all these things indicate that Shakespeare's Hotspur is not within his rights in keeping the prisoners. The indignation of King Henry and Westmoreland, in this scene, at 'young Percy's pride' Hotspur's conciliatory tone and his explanations when he appears at court (I. No attempt is made to explain why Shakespeare's Hotspur sent Mordake to the king—Shakespeare merely follows the facts as set down in Holinshed. But Shakespeare did not know that Mordake was of royal blood (see preceding note) and he was apparently ignorant of the law of arms which gave Hotspur the right to keep the rest of the prisoners.
The Pleiades also a common tavern-sign.I. The substance of the king's speech is: 'Dismiss the lords until Wednesday next, but you yourself return to me at once, for more is to be said and done, than I can say or do in public in my present angry condition.'I. Uttered is used here in its peculiar Elizabethan sense, namely, to put into circulation or to offer to the public. The king uses an astrological figure in his address to Worcester in V.
Hal's quibble on the word durance would have greater significance if a buff jerkin were the costume of a prisoner instead of the ordinary dress of a sheriff's officer. Finally there is the play on the phrase under whose countenance.I. 28 by the play on the words body, beauty, and booty, in each of which the vowel sound, in Shakespeare's day, approximated the round o sound, as in note. There is the obvious play on night and knight in l. Falstaff plays on the word Grace, using it first as a title, then in reference to the spiritual state of grace, and finally as 'grace before meat.' From this simple pun he proceeds to a more complicated play on words. This quotation is perhaps from some contemporary ballad founded on the romance.I.
The name of one of the robbers and of the place of the robbery.I. A damnable trick of quoting and misapplying.I. Moor-ditch was a stagnant ditch and morass outside the walls of London.I. Eating the flesh of a hare was supposed to generate melancholy.I.
The third, i.e., Falstaff. The ordinary form of address to children and servants here, a sign of Poins's undue familiarity with the Prince.I. The reference is to Falstaff's youthful spirit in his old age.I. The warm weather which comes at about the time of All Saints Day, November first called in America Indian Summer.
Falstaff and his three followers both waylay and rob the men, after Hal and Poins have withdrawn. 181-182) is also inaccurate and misleading. The phrase 'those men that we have already waylaid' (ll. 180-181), and now implies, at least, that there are to be but three. He has just mentioned four robbers (ll.

80, Mortimer is represented as Hotspur's brother-in-law.I. 195 Mortimer refers to Lady Percy as 'my aunt Percy.' Here (l. The heir, as the table shows, was the nephew of Lady Percy, and in III. Hotspur's brother-in-law, therefore, was not heir to the throne. But it was the elder Edmund, brother to Roger, who fought Glendower and married his daughter. At his death in 1398, one year before King Richard's, his seven-year-old son succeeded to his claim.
Probably a corruption of 'churl's wain' or 'countryman's wagon,' the name given to the constellation which is now known as the Great Bear.II. One of the adherents of King Richard, executed by order of Henry see Richard II, III. The interview between Hotspur and Henry, from which Hotspur quotes in his next speech, is presented in Shakespeare's Richard II, II. Henry was met at Ravenspurgh, on the coast of Yorkshire, by Northumberland at Doncaster, in southern Yorkshire, by Worcester and finally at Berkeley Castle, in Gloucestershire, by Hotspur. Richard had previously exiled Henry, and the latter chose this period of the king's absence from his realm to return and claim his father's estates, which had been unjustly confiscated by Richard to pay for this same Irish expedition. Richard had appointed York regent of England during the king's absence in Ireland.

Velvet stiffened with gum very soon chafed.II. Frets like a gummed velvet. According to popular superstition, fern-seed was visible only on Saint John's Eve (June 23), and those who gathered it then, according to a certain rite, were themselves rendered invisible.II.
Shakespeare seems to have had a peculiar fondness for the name Kate.II. Genealogical table on page 118. The actual Hotspur's wife's name was Elizabeth, not Kate cf. I could divide myself into two parts and then fight with myself.II.
