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Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

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Author Biography

Name: William Shakespeare
Birth Date: April 23, 1564
Death Date: April 23, 1616
Place of Birth: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Place of Death: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of William Shakespeare
35385 words, approx. 118 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
30474 words, approx. 101.6 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
10254 words, approx. 34.2 pages
William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditio...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Henry IV, Part 2 Information
1,325 words, approx. 4 pages
<i>Henry IV, Part 2</i> is a history play by William Shakespeare. It is the third part of a tetralogy; it is preceded by <i>Richard II</i> and <i>Henry IV, Part 1</i> and succeeded by <i>Henry...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Paola Pugliatti
14,024 words, approx. 47 pages
In the essay below, Pugliatti responds to several of Paul Yachnin's arguments, maintaining that Henry IV, Part Two strengthens and clarifies elements of Henry IV, Part One, rather than revising premises of the first play, as Yachnin suggests. Pugliatti also examines the concept of political, as well as historiographical, instability in the plays.
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Critical Essay by Minoru Fujita
8,013 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following essay, Fujita contrasts Hal's arrival in regal costume and procession in Act V, scene v of Henry IV, Part 2 with Falstaff's appearance in dirty and disheveled clothes, and contends that the fat knight's disregard of ceremony and his mockery of royalty, though amusing in Part 1, can no longer be tolerated by the new king.
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Critical Essay by Paul Yachnin
6,955 words, approx. 23 pages
In the essay that follows, Yachnin contends that what is perceived to be a structural problem in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (that is, the question of whether the plays should be approached as one ten-act play or two separate five-act plays) ceases to be an issue when the plays are understood to be performance texts, rather than literary texts. As such, the critic maintains, the two plays reveal Shakespeare's critique of Renaissance historiography and demonstrate the ‘open-ended’ character ...


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