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The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth (19)
The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth - 19 Author:William Shakespeare Volume: 19 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: Yale University Press Subjects: Drama / General Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and th... more »ere may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: APPENDIX A Sources Of The Play The principal source of the main plot of this play is the 1587 edition of The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by Raphael Holinshed. Samuel Daniel's poem, The Civill Wars of England (1595), or its source, may well have had some influence. Several incidents in the comic plot are taken, apparently, from the play The Famous Victories of Henry V, first acted in 1588, licensed in 1594, and published in 1598. Holinshed's Chronicle According to Holinshed, the Earl of Northumberland was pardoned by the king after the battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. But in 1405 when 'the king was minded to haue gone into Wales against the rebels that vnder their cheeftane Owen Glendower ceassed not to doo much mischeef against the English subiects/ he was 'further disquieted" by a 'con- spiracie put in practise against him at home by the Earle of Northumberland who had conspired with Richard Scroope, Archbishop of Yorke, Thomas Mowbraie earle marshall/ and others. 'The King aduertised of these matters left his iournie into Wales and marched with all speed toward the north parts. Also Rafe Neuill earl of Westmerland, that was not farre off, together with the lord John of Lancaster, the king's sonne, being informed of this rebellious attempt, assembled togither such power as they might make . . . made forward against the rebels, and coming into a plaine within the forrest of Galtree caused their standards to be...« less