DRAMATIS PERSONÆ1 KING HENRY THE FOURTH 2 HENRY, Prince of Wales, } JOHN of Lancaster, EARL OF WESTMORELAND SIR WALTER BLUNT sons to the King THOMAS PERCY, Earl of Worcester HENRY PERCY, Earl of Northumberland HENRY PERCY, surnamed HOTSPUR, son to the Earl of Northumberland EDMUND MORTIMER, Earl of March RICHARD SCROOP, Archbishop of York ARCHIBALD, Earl of DOUGLAS OWEN GLENDOWER SIR RICHARD VERNON SIR JOHN FALSTAFF 3 SIR MICHAEL, a friend to the Archbishop of York POINS GADSHILL BARDOLPH 4 LADY PERCY, wife to Hotspur, and sister to Mortimer LADY MORTIMER, daughter to Glendower, and wife to Mortimer Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, two SCENE: England and Wales 1 Rowe was the first to give a list of Dramatis Persona 2 Notes on the historical relations of the Dramatis Personæ are given either in the Introduction (Historical Connections) or when each character is introduced into the play. 8 FALSTAFF. The name spelled 'Falstaffe' or 'Falstalffe' in the Quartos, but Falstaffe' in the First Folio. 4 BARDOLPH. The Quartos give 'Bardoll' or "Bardol.' 2 ACT I SCENE I. [London. The Palace] Enter KING HENRY, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, the EARL OF WESTMORELAND, [SIR WALTER BLUNT] and others KING HENRY. So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted Peace to pant, And breathe short-winded accents of new broils 4. strands Capell | stronds QqF1F2 | storms F3F4. 5 ACT I. SCENE I. In the Folios, not in the Quartos, the play is divided into acts and scenes, which are given with Latin nomenclature. The bracketed matter in the stage directions throughout the play is the work of Rowe and later editors. 1-4. The image is of Peace so scared and out of breath with domestic strife that she can but make a brief pause, and pant forth short and broken speech of new wars to be undertaken in foreign lands. This play distinctly is continuous with Richard II, at the close of which Bolingbroke avows his purpose to atone for the death of Richard by leading out another Crusade: I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land, To wash this blood off from my guilty hand. And in fact he was hardly more than seated on the throne before he began to be so harassed by acts of rebellion and threats of invasion that he conceived the plan of drowning the public sense of his usurpation in an enthusiasm of foreign war and conquest. 5. entrance: mouth. Cf. Genesis, iv. 11: And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand." |