Editions
Bantam editions. Contains selected annotated bibliography and selections from Shakespeare's sources.
Cambridge School Shakespeare. Contains wonderful essays, pictures,
activities for teaching at the high school level.
Folger Shakespeare. Contains a summary of each scene along with annotations.
Selected bibliography.
Moston, Doug. The First Folio of Shakespeare, 1623. NY: Applause, 1995. A facsimile of the first "collected works" of Shakespeare, with the collection supervised after Shakespeare's death by his colleagues John Heminge and Henrie Condell.
Signet Classics. Contains text, essays including sources and theater history. Selected bibliography.
Variorum text. Contains text, sources, notes on critical commentary, notes on editing.
Bate, Jonathan and Russell Jackson, editors. England: Oxford UP, 1996. Wonderful sketches and pictures of productions over four centuries.
Bergeron, David M. and Geraldo U. deSousa. Shakespeare: A Study and Research Guide. 3rd ed., rev. Lawrence, KS: UP of Kansas, 1995. Introduction to critical approaches and scholarly resources, with a section on writing and documenting a term paper.
Berman, Ronald. A Reader's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays: A Discursive Bibliography. Rev. ed. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1973. Essays on major critical opinion, play by play.
Blake, Norman.Shakespeare's Language: An Introduction. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1983. A general introduction to Elizabethan English, giving possible meanings for problematic constructions.
Boyce, Charles. Shakespeare A to Z. NY: Laurel, Dell, 1990. Reference book with entries on plays (scene-by-scene summary, commentary, sources and theatrical history), characters, actors, historical people. For the general reader. Selected bibliography.
Bullough, Geoffrey. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, 8 vols. NY: Columbia UP, 1957-1975.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare. NY: William Morrow, 1992. Recent, readable biography of Shakespeare and his times.
Modern Language Association annual bibliography. Now searchable on CD-ROM (under electronic collections at workstations in the library).
Papp, Joseph and Elizabeth Kirkland. Shakespeare Alive! NY: Bantam, 1988. A lively introduction to Elizabethan thought, Shakespeare's sources and theatre and stage history of Shakespearean production.
Partridge, Eric. Shakespeare's Bawdry. Rev. ed. NY: Dutton, 1955. A glossary of bawdy words and phrases.
Rothwell, Kenneth S. and Annabelle Henkin Melzer. Shakespeare on Screen : An International Filmography and Videography. London: Mansell, 1990. Exhaustive list of screen materials, organized by play and date of production. Includes critical reception, names of personnel in production, information about distributors.
Shakespeare Quarterly. Annual bibliography that is exhaustive on articles, productions, editions, translations of Shakespeare. Annotated entries.
Spevack, Marvin. The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1973. Lists all the words in Shakespeare's works with reference to plays. (6 vol. version gives words play by play and character by character)
Wells, Stanley, ed. Shakespeare: A Bibliographical Guide. New edition. NY: Oxford UP, 1990.
Bogdanov, Michael, director. Henry IV, Part One. The English Theatre Company. Video, Films for the Humanities, c. 1991. Starring Michael Pennington as Prince Hal, Andrew Jarvis as Hotspur, Philip Bowen as Worcester, and Sion Probert as Glendower.
Giles, David, director. Henry IV, Part One. Video. BBC, 1979. Starring Jon Finch as Henry IV, David Gwillim as Prince Hal, and Anthony Quayle as Falstaff.
Welles, Orson, director. Chimes at Midnight. Movie (combination of excerpts from Henry IV, Part One, from Henry IV, Part Two and from Henry V. Film, black and white. Spain: International Films Espagnol Alpine, 1965. With Orson Welles as Falstaff, Keith Baxter as Hal, John Gielgud as Henry IV, and Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly.
Barnet, Sylvan. "Henry IV, Part One on Stage and Screen." In William Shakespeare's The History of Henry IV [Part One], edited by Maynard Mack. NY: Signet Classics, 1987. Pp. 271-83. Gives the stage history of the play since the sixteenth century.
Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Heilman. "from Understanding Drama." In William Shakespeare's The History of Henry IV [Part One], edited by Maynard Mack. NY: Signet Classics, 1987. Pp. 267-70. Compares and contrasts Falstaff and Hotspur as the two extremes between which Hal finds the golden mean.
Johnson, Samuel. "from The Plays of William Shakespeare." In William Shakespeare's The History of Henry IV [Part One], edited by Maynard Mack. NY: Signet Classics, 1987. Pp. 234-35. Originally published in 1765, this essay discusses Hal in comparison to Hotspur and Falstaff.
Kahn, Coppelia. "from Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare." In William Shakespeare's The History of Henry IV [Part One], edited by Maynard Mack. NY: Signet Classics, 1987. Pp. 262-66. Discusses Falstaff in the context of Hal's development in rebellion against his father and attraction to him.
Manheim, Michael. "The English history play on screen." In (eds.) Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells, Shakespeare and the Moving Image: the plays on Film and Television. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 1994. Pp. 121-45. Reviews important film and television versions of Shakespeare's "first tetralogy" (Henry VI, parts 1-3 and Richard III) and "second tetralogy" (Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, and Henry V).
O'Brien, Peggy, editor. Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Hamlet and Henry IV, Part 1. NY: Washington Square Press, 1994. Contains information and exercises designed for teaching Henry IV, Part 1 in high school. Useful graphics and information.
Critical Works on Henry IV, Part One