Special Introduction to the play by the editor, Maynard Mack, Yale University General discussion of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet,Tufts University Sources from which Shakespeare derived Henry IV, Part One -Raphael Holinshed : from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland; Samuel Daniel: from The First Four Books of the Civil Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York, Anonymous:The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by Samuel Johnson, Samuel
Taylor Coleridge. John Dover Wilson, Derek Travers, James Winny, Robert Ornstein, Michael Goldman, Coppelia Kahn, Cleanth Brooks and Robert S. Heilman.
A new, comprehensive stage history of notable actors, directors, and productions of Henry IV, Part One, then and now. Text and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page of the play keyed to the numbered lines of the text.