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List of illustrations General Editors+ preface
Preface
Introduction
Great expectations Mingling kings and clowns: history, comedy and dramatic unity 1 Henryp. 4
one part or one play?
Understanding politics in the play
Understanding the politics of the play Unimitated, unimitable Falstaff Falstaff as Oldcastle/Oldcastle as Falstaff
radical Protestantism and Rabelaisian play Counterfeiting and kings, credit and credibility
economic language in the play
What is that word +honour+?
Women in the play
The play in performance
The play on the page: the text of 1 Henry 4 Editorial procedures
King Henry Iv

The sources of 1 Henry IV
A note on Shakespeare+s metrics
The play in manuscript
Casting
The Q0 fragment
Abbreviations and References
Index
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David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues that the non-historical, comic plot does not simply parody the historical action but by its existence raises questions about the very nature of history. The full and engaging introduction devotes extensive discussion to the play?s language, indicating how its insistent economic vocabulary provides texture for the social concerns of the play and focuses attention on the central relationship between value and political authority.