For other versions of this work, see Henry IV, Part 1 (Shakespeare).
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth (1917)
William Shakespeare, edited by Samuel Burdett Hemingway
2651252The First Part of King Henry the Fourth1917William Shakespeare

The Yale Shakespeare


THE FIRST PART OF
KING HENRY THE FOURTH

With the Life and Death of
Henry, Surnamed Hotspur

EDITED BY
SAMUEL B. HEMINGWAY

NEW HAVEN • YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS • MCMXVII

Copyright, 1917
By Yale University Press


First published September, 1917

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
The Text 1
Act I 1
Act II 23
Act III 56
Act IV 80
Act V 94
Notes 114
Appendix A. Variants 129
Appendix B. Sources 131
Appendix C. The History of the Play 136
Bibliography 141
Index of Words Glossed 142

The map opposite represents the principal towns, rivers, etc., mentioned in "The First Part of King Henry the Fourth."

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE


Edited by

Wilbur L. CrossTucker Brooke

Willard Higley Durham


Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University,

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society


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