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King Henry IV, Part 2

Chapter 3: SCENE: England.
By William Shakespeare
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The play follows an aging king whose failing health and uneasy authority are threatened by renewed baronial plots while his heir divides time between courtly expectation and riotous companionship with a disreputable but witty companion. Scenes shift between political councils, battlefield aftermaths, rustic comic encounters, and tavern life, where loyalties, honor, and reputation are tested. Comic subplots — chiefly the companion’s boastful antics and encounters with country justices — counterpoint the serious business of rebellion and governance, and the narrative moves toward the heir’s recognition of duty and the kingdom’s fragile order.

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Title: King Henry IV, Part 2

Author: William Shakespeare

Release date: November 1, 1998 [eBook #1518]
Most recently updated: September 19, 2025

Language: English

Credits: the PG Shakespeare Team, a team of about twenty Project Gutenberg volunteers.

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THE SECOND PART OF
KING HENRY IV

by William Shakespeare

Contents

INDUCTION
ACT I
Scene I. The same.
Scene II. London. A street.
Scene III. York. The Archbishop’s palace.
ACT II
Scene I. London. A street.
Scene II. London. Another street.
Scene III. Warkworth. Before the castle.
Scene IV. The Boar’s head Tavern in Eastcheap.
ACT III
Scene I. Westminster. The palace.
Scene II. Gloucestershire. Before Justice Shallow’s house.
ACT IV
Scene I. Yorkshire. Gaultree Forest.
Scene II. Another part of the forest.
Scene III. Another part of the forest.
Scene IV. Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber.
Scene V. Another chamber.
ACT V
Scene I. Gloucestershire. Shallow’s house.
Scene II. Westminster. The palace.
Scene III. Gloucestershire. Shallow’s orchard.
Scene IV. London. A street.
Scene V. A public place near Westminster Abbey.
EPILOGUE

Dramatis Personæ

RUMOUR, the Presenter.
KING HENRY the Fourth.
HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES, afterwards King Henry the Fifth.
THOMAS, DUKE OF CLARENCE.
PRINCE JOHN OF LANCASTER.
PRINCE HUMPHREY OF GLOUCESTER.
EARL OF WARWICK.
EARL OF WESTMORELAND.
EARL OF SURREY.
GOWER.
HARCOURT.
SIR JOHN BLUNT.
Lord CHIEF JUSTICE of the King’s Bench.
A SERVANT of the Chief Justice.
Henry Percy, Earl of NORTHUMBERLAND.
Scroop, ARCHBISHOP of York.
Lord MOWBRAY.
Lord HASTINGS.
LORD BARDOLPH.
SIR JOHN COLEVILLE.
TRAVERS and MORTON, retainers of Northumberland.
SIR JOHN FALSTAFF.
His Page.
BARDOLPH.
PISTOL.
POINS.
PETO.
SHALLOW and SILENCE, country justices.
DAVY, Servant to Shallow.
MOULDY, SHADOW, WART, FEEBLE, and BULLCALF, recruits.
FANG and SNARE, sheriff’s officers.

LADY NORTHUMBERLAND.
LADY PERCY.
MISTRESS QUICKLY, hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap.
DOLL TEARSHEET.

Lords and Attendants; Porter, Drawers, Musicians, Beadles, Grooms, etc.

A Dancer, speaker of the epilogue.

SCENE: England.