Introduction

• Introduction
• Performance History
• Critical Reception
• Textual Introduction
• Chronology
• Bibliography

Texts of this edition

The earliest surviving copies of Henry IV, Part 1 were printed in 1598, within two years of the play's first performance. Unusually, two quarto editions of the play were printed that year, Q0 and Q1. All that remains of Q0 is a single sheet containing eight pages of the play. Q1 contains the complete play and appears to have been directly printed from Q0. Another five quarto editions appeared before the version printed in the First Folio (F1) in 1623, which appears to have been printed from the fifth quarto. The modern text for this edition is based on Q1, apart from the pages that have survived from Q0.

• Henry IV, Part 1, Modern
• Henry IV, Part 1, Folio 1 1623 (Old-spelling transcription)
• Henry IV, Part 1, Quarto 0, 1598 (Old-spelling transcription)
• Henry IV, Part 1, Quarto 1, 1598 (Old-spelling transcription)

Supplementary and related materials

• Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland

  Raphael Holinshed

• The Civil Wars Between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York

  Samuel Daniel

• Acts and Monuments, 1563

  John Foxe

• Hall's Chronicle

  Edward Hall

• The Prince

  Niccolo Machiavelli

• A Mirror for Magistrates

  William Baldwin and John Higgins. Edited by Rosemary Gaby and Andrew Griffin

• Sir John Oldcastle

  Anonymous, Michael Drayton, Richard Hathway, Antony Munday, Robert Wilson, and William Shakespeare

• Chronicles of England

  John Stow