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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Chapter 239: Dramatis Personæ

By William Shakespeare

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This collection gathers dramatic works and lyrical poems spanning comedies, tragedies, histories, and a sonnet sequence, presenting plays in verse and prose alongside narrative poems. The pieces examine human experience through recurring themes of love, ambition, jealousy, power, fate, and the tension between appearance and reality, moving between comic confusion and tragic collapse. Language and theatrical craft are central, employing vivid imagery, rhetorical invention, puns, and varied poetic forms to probe identity, political conflict, and moral choice across intimate moments and public spectacle.

THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH

Contents

Scene I. London. A Room in the Palace.

Scene II. The same. An Apartment of Prince Henry’s.

Scene III. The Same. A Room in the Palace.

Scene I. Rochester. An Inn-Yard.

Scene II. The Road by Gads-hill.

Scene III. Warkworth. A Room in the Castle.

Scene IV. Eastcheap. A Room in the Boar’s Head Tavern.

Scene I. Bangor. A Room in the Archdeacon’s House.

Scene II. London. A Room in the Palace.

Scene III. Eastcheap. A Room in the Boar’s Head Tavern.

Scene I. The Rebel Camp near Shrewsbury.

Scene II. A public Road near Coventry.

Scene III. The Rebel Camp near Shrewsbury.

Scene IV. York. A Room in the Archbishop’s Palace.

Scene I. The King’s Camp near Shrewsbury.

Scene II. The Rebel Camp.

Scene III. Plain between the Camps.

Scene IV. Another Part of the Field.

Scene V. Another Part of the Field.

Dramatis Personæ

KING HENRY the Fourth.
HENRY, PRINCE of Wales, son to the King.
Prince John of LANCASTER, son to the King.
Earl of WESTMORELAND.
Sir Walter BLUNT.
Thomas Percy, Earl of WORCESTER.
Henry Percy, Earl of NORTHUMBERLAND.
Henry Percy, surnamed HOTSPUR, his son.
Edmund MORTIMER, Earl of March.
Scroop, ARCHBISHOP of York.
SIR MICHAEL, a friend to the archbishop of York.
Archibald, Earl of DOUGLAS.
Owen GLENDOWER.
Sir Richard VERNON.
Sir John FALSTAFF.
POINS.
GADSHILL.
PETO.
BARDOLPH.
LADY PERCY, Wife to Hotspur.
Lady Mortimer, Daughter to Glendower.
Mrs. Quickly, Hostess in Eastcheap.
Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain, Drawers, Carriers, Ostler, Messengers, Servant, Travellers and Attendants.

SCENE. England and Wales.