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A brief history play alternating between your high dilemma of court life and the earthy funny of the Boar's Mind Tavern in Eastcheap, William Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I is a masterful dilemma of a prodigal son rising to meet his future. This Penguin Shakespeare release is edited by Peter Davison with an advantages by Charles Edelman. 'Uneasy is the head that wears a crown' Prince Hal, the child of King Henry IV, spends his time in idle pleasure with dissolute friends, among them the roguish Sir John Falstaff. But when the kingdom is threatened by the rebellious Earls of Northumberland and Worcester, and their allies, the fiery Welsh mystic Owen Glendower and the Scottish Earl of Douglas, the prince must abandon his reckless ways. Taking biceps and triceps against his complete opposite quantity, the volatile young Harry 'Hotspur' Percy, he begins a great and persuasive transformation - from irresponsible reprobate to noble ruler of men. This publication contains an over-all advantages to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theater, a separate advantages to Henry IV Part I, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and display screen, and a commentary. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was created to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden some time in late Apr 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 works (the precise quantity is uncertain), a lot of which are regarded as the most exceptional works of dilemma ever before produced, including Romeo and Juliet (1595), Henry V (1599), Hamlet (1601), Othello (1604), King Lear (1606) and Macbeth (1606), as well as a collection of 154 sonnets, which quantity being among the most profound and influential love-poetry in British. If you enjoyed Henry IV Part I, you may like Henry IV Part II, also available in Penguin Shakespeare. 'The finest, most representative case of what Shakespeare can do' Harold Bloom