Henry IV, Part 1

Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, widely considered the greatest of the histories. It is set in a period beginning sometime in 1402 and ending in July, 1403. The play follows on from Richard II and is succeeded by Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V.

References

• Wright, Louis B, LaMar, Virginia A. (eds.) The Folger Library General Reader's Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part I.
• Greenblatt, Stephen. "Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and Its Subversion in Henry IV and Henry V." In Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield (eds.), Political Shakespeare (1985), pp. 18–47.
• Barker, Roberta. "Tragical-Comical-Historical Hotspur." Shakespeare Quarterly 54.3 (2003): 288–307.