Shall die of a sweat, unless already be killed with your hard opinions” (Epilogue 24–29, emphasis added all line references from Bevington’s Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5th ed. Start with Henry IV Part Two’s Epilogue: “If you be not too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in it. The second concerns a rebellion that is being plotted against King Henry by a discontented family of noblemen in the North, the Percys. The first plot concerns King Henry IV, his son, Prince Harry, and their strained relationship. Note: 1 Henry IV has two main plots that intersect in a dramatic battle at the end of the play.
In 4.2, Falstaff reveals that his “charge of foot” is puny, weak, and few in number because “I pressed me none but such toast-and-butter, with hearts in their bellies no bigger than pins’ heads, and they have bought out their services” (4.2.20–22). How can we condemn him for thievery when he’s so incompetent? How can we fault him for lying when he’s only trying to save face?But when Hal “procures a charge of foot” as well as “money to equip them” (3.3.186, 202), the old fat man rapidly declines to more serious lapses. So far, Falstaff is fat and funny, guilty only of good humor and a little fudging here and there. King Henry the.We’ve seen Prince Hal perform his tasks as warrior prince against the triple-threat of Wales, Scotland, and rebellious English earls, while Falstaff proves himself a leech, a thief, a coward, and a liar by act 2, scene 4, when the Gadshill scheme is revealed and Hal pays off Falstaff’s tavern bills. Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.” Hal, as king, answers simply, “I do, I will” (2.4.469–76).There are also links to important Shakespeare websites and a bibliography of articles that will aid in teaching this play. Banish not him thy Harry’s company.
“What says the doctor to my water?” are Falstaff’s first words. Most ingloriously, moreover, Falstaff “recovers,” stabs the body of Hotspur, and claims the kill as he dumps the corpse at Hal’s feet—and it’s downhill from here.While the main plot of Henry IV Part Two, dispenses of the remaining rebels from Part One and reconciles King Henry and Prince Hal, the Falstaff plot begins with images of disease and ends with murder and mayhem. The added italics suggest that the prince values his association with Falstaff (for instructional purposes, perhaps), though he by no means honors him. / Death hath not struck so fat a deer today, / Though many dearer” (102–8). In act 5, scene 4, Falstaff “counterfeit” death, since “the better part of valor is discretion” (119), prompting Prince Hal’s interesting eulogy: “What, old acquaintance, could not all this flesh / Keep in a little life? Poor Jack farewell! / I could have better spared a better man. / Oh, I should have a heavy miss of thee / If I were much in love with vanity. Still, since he’s merely telling his tale with habitual exaggeration, his braggadocio provides humor but when in Part Two we actually witness his chicanery, meet a handful of unsavory conscripts with names like Moldy, Shadow, Wart, Feeble, and Bullcalf, and cringe that Falstaff uses Bardolph and Justices Shallow and Silence as aiders and abettors, it’s not so funny anymore.Part One ends with the battle scenes.
Put all my substance into that fat belly of his” (72–73). Adding, “You have misled the youthful Prince” (1.2.143), “You follow the young Prince up and down, like his ill angel” (162–63), and “God send the Prince a better companion” (197–97), he announces, “the King hath severed you and Prince Harry” by assigning Falstaff to war with Lord John (1.2.200–3).At the tavern in 2.1, Hostess Quickly has called officers to arrest Falstaff for “eat me out of house and home. Instead of raillery with Prince Hal, the scene pits Falstaff against the Chief Justice, who reprimands him for “failure to appear,” but acknowledges that his “service at Shrewsbury hath a little gilded over your night’s exploit on Gad’s Hill” (1.2.100, 147–48). The scene also ends with images of disease—incurable, consumption, gout, pox.
Falstaff’s first words are, “Empty the. He again reminds Falstaff that he’s “loiter here too long” instead of gathering soldiers on his way north.In the next tavern scene, 2.4, Doll Tearsheet feels unwell (it turns out she’s pregnant). “Pay her the debt you owe her,” the Chief Justice continues, “and unpay the villainy you have done her” (116–18).
This doth infer the zeal I had to see him. “But ‘tis no matter,” he rationalizes “this poor show doth better. The Beadle insists, “Come, I charge you both, go with me, for t he man is dead that you and Pistol beat amongst you” (15–17)—the same Pistol who accompanies Falstaff to the parade.Finally, Falstaff arrives for the coronation parade in dirty, shabby—probably smelly—clothes. “You lie,” Doll shrieks after the Beadle says, “There hath been a man or two killed about her” “ the child I go with do miscarry, thou wert better thou hadst struck thy mother” (5.4.6–10).
He is defunct and cannot be restored—except as humiliated buffoon in Merry Wives. Stand stained with travel and sweating with desire to see him” (5.4.10–26).As King Henry V pauses for a twenty-five-line reprimand and dismissal, though providing “that lack of means enforce you not to evils” (5.5.67), we concur with Prince John, his younger brother: “I like this fair proceeding of the King’s / He hath intent his wonted followers / Shall all be very well provided for, / But all are banished till their conversations / Appear more wise and modest to the world” (5.5.98–102). O ride day and night, and.
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