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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Chapter 266: 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 SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH

Contents

Scene I. The same.

Scene II. London. A street.

Scene III. York. The Archbishop’s palace.

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.

Scene I. Westminster. The palace.

Scene II. Gloucestershire. Before Justice Shallow’s house.

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.

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.

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.