Ready Reference Treatise: Henry IV Part I

By Raja Sharma

The play describes in complete detail a period of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon against the Douglas late in 1402 and ends with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of 1403. Both general audiences and critics have admired the play.

Through various allusions and references presented through the Falstaff character it becomes clear that the play was probably performed in the year 1597. However, there are some records which show that the play was first performed on 6th March, 1600, on the afternoon.

It is said that the play was first performed at the court when the Flemish Ambassador was also present. After that performance, the play was again performed in the court in the year 1612 and 1625.

Ready Reference Treatise: Henry IV Part I
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Preface
Chapter One: About William Shakespeare
Chapter Two: Introduction to “Henry IV Part I”
Chapter Three: Summary in Brief
Chapter Four: Characters
Chapter Five: Complete Summary Act I
Chapter Six: Complete Summary Act II
Chapter Seven: Complete Summary Act III
Chapter Eight: Complete Summary Act IV
Chapter Nine: Complete Summary Act V
Chapter Ten: Thematic Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Jul 9, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301032716

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: Henry IV Part I

Raja Sharma

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Ready Reference Treatise: Henry IV Part I

Raja Sharma

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Preface

Pace is the requirement of the time and this very pace compels the students to simply concentrate on the fact that they must pass their exams with flying colours. The tests and exams even for the students of literature have become speed tests rather than the process of evaluation of the mental ingenuity of the students. Young students from colleges, nowadays, simply want to pass their exams, for education has become job oriented. We used to go to college to gain knowledge but youngsters now go to colleges to get degrees. In the process something is lost. It is quite usual to see that the academic institutions all over the world are gradually forgetting the past geniuses on whose foundations the pillars of English Literature had been raised. Modern education and the educationalists seem to be finding an escape, running away from hard work, into modern literature which is but a drop in the ocean if compared to the works of the past masters.

Who could have thought that the vast and enchanting English literature and the English speaking world would be indebted to a person who had no academic higher education? Yes, William Shakespeare is the person who gave a new direction to the literary world and the academic pursuits all over the world.

Chapter One: About William Shakespeare

The beauty of the English Language is so mesmerizing that without the knowledge of this beautiful language one finds oneself incapable of doing various things which one could have easily done if one had the knowledge of this language.

Vast and enchanting English Literature is immensely indebted to a person who did not have any higher academic qualification. Most of the colleges and universities all over the world have his poems and playas in their course of study. It is quite surprising that his diction was so much his own that if a man from this era tries to read his works using the modern meanings, he will definitely be quite confounded. Such was the power of the person that to understand his works properly one must have the dictionary which defines his vocabulary. That person, the most widely read and admired, is William Shakespeare, also called Bard.

William Shakespeare was born on 26 April, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith.

Having left Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare moved onto London and he started his career as an actor. In the following seven years, from 1585 to 1592, Shakespeare began a successful career as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men.

It is generally assumed that Shakespeare retired to Stratford around 1613, where he breathed his last three years later. In the absence of enough records of Shakespeare, most of the things about Bard are assumed. There has been a considerable amount of guesswork about