Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare (Illustrated)

By William Shakespeare

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781786562845

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

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The Complete Works of

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

VOLUME 16 OF 74

Henry IV, Part II

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2012

Version 6

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‘Henry IV, Part II’

William Shakespeare: Parts Edition (in 74 parts)

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William Shakespeare: Parts Edition

This eBook is Part 16 of the Delphi Classics edition of William Shakespeare in 74 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Henry IV, Part II from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of William Shakespeare, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

IN 74 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Plays

1, Henry  VI, Part 2

2, Henry  VI, Part 3

3, Henry  VI, Part 1

4, Richard  III

5, The Comedy of Errors

6, Titus Andronicus

7, Taming of the Shrew

8, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

9, Love’s Labour’s Lost

10, Romeo and Juliet

11, Richard II

12, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

13, King John

14, The Merchant of Venice

15, Henry IV, Part I

16, Henry IV, Part II

17, Much Ado About Nothing

18, Henry V

19, Julius Caesar

20, As You Like It

21, Twelfth Night

22, Hamlet

23, The Merry Wives of Windsor

24, Troilus and Cressida

25, All’s Well that Ends Well

26, Measure for Measure

27, Othello

28, King Lear

29, Macbeth

30, Antony and Cleopatra

31, Coriolanus

32, Timon of Athens

33, Pericles

34, Cymbeline

35, The Winter’s Tale

36, The Tempest

37, Henry  VIII

38, The Two Noble Kinsmen

The Lost Plays

39, The Lost Plays

The Sources

40, The Plays’ Sources

The Apocryphal Plays

41, Arden of Faversham

42, The Birth of Merlin

43, King Edward  III

44, Locrine

45, The London Prodigal

46, The Puritan

47, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy

48, Sir John Oldcastle

49, Thomas Lord Cromwell

50, A Yorkshire Tragedy

51, Sir Thomas More

52, Fair Em

53, Mucedorus

54, The Merry Devil of Edmonton

55, Edmund Ironside

56, Thomas of Woodstock

57, Vortigern and Rowena

The Adaptations

58, Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

The Poetry

59, The Sonnets

60, Venus and Adonis

61, The Rape of Lucrece

62, The Passionate Pilgrim

63, The Phoenix and the Turtle

64, A Lover’s Complaint

The Apocryphal Poetry

65, To the Queen

66, A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter

67, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music

The Criticism

68, The Criticism

The Biographies

69, Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe

70, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters by Henry Norman Hudson

71, Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee

72, Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London by Arthur Acheson

73, The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner

Resources

74, Resources

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Henry IV, Part II

Believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599, this is the third part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II and Henry IV, Part 1 and succeeded by Henry V.  Shakespeare’s primary source for Henry IV, Part 2 is Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles and Edward Hall’s The Union of the Two Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York.  The play was published in quarto the same year (printing by Valentine Simmes). Less popular than Henry IV, Part 1, this was the only quarto edition. The play next saw print in the First Folio in 1623.

The first page of the First Folio, published in 1623

CONTENTS

Dramatis Personæ

Induction.

Act I. Scene I.

Act I. Scene II.

Act I. Scene III.

Act II. Scene I.

Act II. Scene II.

Act II. Scene III.

Act II. Scene IV.

Act III. Scene I.

Act III. Scene II.

Act IV. Scene I.

Act IV. Scene II.

Act IV. Scene III.

Act IV. Scene IV.

Act IV. Scene V.

Act V. Scene I.

Act V. Scene II.

Act V. Scene III.

Act V. Scene IV.

Act V. Scene V.

EPILOGUE.

Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal in the 2012 TV adaptation of the history plays: ‘The Hollow Crown’

Dramatis Personæ

RUMOUR, the Presenter.

KING HENRY THE FOURTH.

HENRY, Prince of Wales; afterwards King Henry the Fifth, & THOMAS, Duke of Clarence, & JOHN OF LANCASTER, & HUMPHREY OF GLOUCESTER: His Sons.

EARL OF WARWICK, EARL OF WESTMORELAND, EARL OF SURREY, & GOWER, HARCOURT, & BLUNT: Of the King’s party.

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the King’s Bench.

A Servant of the Chief Justice.

EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND; RICHARD SCROOP, Archbishop of York; LORD MOWBRAY, LORD HASTINGS, LORD BARDOLPH, & SIR JOHN COLEVILE: Opposites to the King.

TRAVERS and MORTON, Retainers of Northumberland.

SIR JOHN FALSTAFF.

His Page.

BARDOLPH.

PISTOL.

POINS.

PETO.

SHALLOW and SILENCE, Country Justices.

DAVY, Servant to Shallow.

MOULDY, SHADOW, WART, FEEBLE, and BULLCALF, Recruits.

FANG and SNARE, Sheriff’s Officers.

A Porter.

A Dancer, Speaker of the Epilogue.

LADY NORTHUMBERLAND.

LADY PERCY.

MISTRESS QUICKLY, Hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap.

DOLL TEARSHEET.

Lords and Attendants; Officers, Soldiers, Messenger, Drawers, Beadles, Grooms, &c.

SCENE. — England.

Induction.

Warkworth.  Before NORTHUMBERLAND’S Castle.

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues

Rum.  Open your ears; for which of you will stop

The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?

I, from the orient to the drooping west,   5

Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold

The acts commenced on this ball of earth:

Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,

The which in every language I pronounce,

Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.   10

I speak of peace, while covert enmity

Under the smile of safety wounds the world:

And who but Rumour, who but only I,

Make fearful musters and prepar’d defence,

Whilst the big year, swoln with some other grief,   15

Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war,

And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe

Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures,

And of so easy and so plain a stop

That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,   20

The still-discordant wavering multitude,

Can play upon it. But what need I thus

My well-known body to anatomize

Among my household? Why is Rumour here?

I run before King Harry’s victory;   25

Who in a bloody field by Shrewsbury

Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops,

Quenching the flame of bold rebellion

Even with the rebels’ blood. But what mean I

To speak so true at first? my office is   30

To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell

Under the wrath of noble Hotspur’s sword,

And that the king before the Douglas’ rage

Stoop’d his anointed head as low as death.

This have I rumour’d through the peasant towns   35

Between the royal field of Shrewsbury

And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone,

Where Hotspur’s father, old Northumberland,

Lies crafty-sick. The posts come tiring on,

And not a man of them brings other news   40

Than they have learn’d of me: from Rumour’s tongues

They bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wrongs.  [Exit.

Act I. Scene I.

Warkworth.  Before NORTHUMBERLAND’S Castle.

Enter LORD BARDOLPH.

L. Bard.  Who keeps the gate here? ho!  [The Porter opens the gate.

      Where is the earl?

Port.  What shall I say you are?   5

L. Bard.        Tell thou the earl

That the Lord Bardolph doth attend him here.

Port.  His Lordship is walk’d forth into the orchard:

Please it your honour knock but at the gate,

And he himself will answer.   10

Enter NORTHUMBERLAND.

L. Bard.        Here comes the earl.  [Exit Porter.

North.  What news, Lord Bardolph? every minute now

Should be the father of some stratagem.

The times are wild; contention, like a horse   15

Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose

And bears down all before him.

L. Bard.        Noble earl,

I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury.

North.  Good, an God will!   20

L. Bard.        As good as heart can wish.

The