Kaarten: henry IV part 1 | Quizlet

At what tavern do Falstaff and friends congregate

Boar's head

where does final battle take place?

shrewsbury

who was king before henry IV

richard II

Why does Harry say he is spending so much time with Falstaff?

To lower expectations, so that when he chooses to act kingly, he will impress everyone all the more

why does kate confront hotspur

He has not eaten well, slept well, or made love to her for two weeks

How do the Percys justify their rebellion?

They say that Henry is ungrateful for the role they played in helping him seize the throne

In the battle, what does Falstaff carry in place of a pistol?

skin of wine

who kills hotspur

harry

. Why does Henry decide to execute Worcester?

He deviously chose not to convey Henry's peace offering to Hotspur

approx when was play written?

1596

what is glyndwr's nationality

welsh

what is douglas's nationality

scottish

what family does hotspur belong to

percy

. Who is John of Lancaster

harry's younger brother

With whom does Harry trick Falstaff during the robbery?

poins

where did gadshill get his name?

From a place where he has staged many robberies

how does falstaff survive battle

by playing dead

What is Falstaff's favorite literary device?

the pun

falstaff's first name

john

Which captive does Hotspur wish to have released?

mortimer

How does the Archbishop of York feel about the king?

He is an active participant in the rebellion against the king

Why does Hotspur's father say he will not go to battle?

he is too sick

how did henry obtain crown

he took it in revolution

Which of the following traits do Harry and Hotspur have in common?

age

who kills falstaff

falstaff does not die in play

If "virtue is the mean between the extremes." this character represents the "mean."

hal

_______ thinks "honor is a mere scutcheon."

falstaff

Two participants in the tavern "Throne Scene" :

hal (harry) and falstaff

This character's barroom antics disappoint his father:

hal (harry)

When Hal, called for Falstaff's weapon, Falstaff handed him _______________.

a bottle of sack

This character dies because he is abandoned by family and allies:

hotspur

central motifs:

thievery, counterfeiting, temptation to vanity

If "virtue is the mean between extremes," these two characters represent the "extremes":

hotspur and falstaff

characters in conspiracy plot:

hotspur, northumberland, glyndwr

Who said he would "pluck bright honor from the pale-fac'd moon?"

hotspur

Yea, there thou mak'st me sad and mak'st me sin

In envy that my Lord Northumberland

Should be the father to so blest a son—

A son who is the theme of honour's tongue,

Amongst a grove the very straightest plant,

Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride—

Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him

See riot and dishonor stain the brow

Of my young Harry. O, that it could be proved

That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged

In cradle clothes our children where they lay,

And called mine Percy, his Plantagenet!

King Henry speaks in the first scene of the play, set the stage for the conflict between Prince Harry and Hotspur.

I know you all, and will awhile uphold

The unyoked humour of your idleness.

Yet herein will I imitate the sun,

Who doth permit the base contagious clouds

To smother up his beauty from the world,

That when he please again to be himself,

Being wanted, he may be more wondered at

By breaking through the foul and ugly mists

Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.

If all the year were playing holidays,

To sport would be as tedious as to work;

But when they seldom come, they wished-for come,

And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.

So, when this loose behaviour I throw off

And pay the debt I never promisèd,

By how much better than my word I am,

By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;

And like bright metal on a sullen ground,

My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault,

Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes

Than that which hath no foil to set it off.

I'll so offend to make offence a skill,

Redeeming time when men think least I will.

Prince Harry addresses this monologue to Falstaff and his friends, even though they have just left the room, leaving Harry all alone. It is in this speech that Harry first reveals his deception. His idling with the Boar's Head company is all an act, and when the need arises, he will cast off the act and reveal his true noble nature.

When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,

. . .

Came there a certain lord, neat and trimly dressed,

Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin, new-reaped

Showed like a stubble-land at harvest-home.

He was perfumèd like a milliner,

. . .

With many holiday and lady terms

He questioned me; amongst the rest demanded

My prisoners in your majesty's behalf.

I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold —

To be so pestered with a popinjay! —

Out of my grief and my impatience

Answered neglectingly, I know not what —

He should, or should not — for he made me mad

To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet,

And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman

. . .

So cowardly, and but for these vile guns

He would himself have been a soldier.

Hotspur gives this speech to Henry to explain why he did not release a group of prisoners when ordered to do so by Henry's messenger.

But to say I know more harm in him than in myself were to say more than I know. That he is old, the more the pity, his white hairs do witness it. But that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked. If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned. If to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord, banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins, but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff,

Banish not him thy Harry's company,

Banish not him thy Harry's company.

Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.

PRINCE: I do; I will.

This exchange occurs during Harry and Falstaff's game of role--playing, as Falstaff pretends to be Harry so that Harry can prepare for his upcoming meeting with his father. Falstaff uses his time in the role of King Henry mainly to praise himself, urging Harry to keep Falstaff near him—something that the real king would never do, but certainly in keeping with Falstaff's character. Playing Harry, Falstaff lists his own faults, and then excuses each of them

Well, 'tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set-to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word "honour"? What is that "honour"? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. 'Tis insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism.

Falstaff delivers this diatribe against honor during the battle at Shrewsbury, just before the climax of the play. Linking honor to violence, Falstaff, who is about to go into battle, says that honor "pricks him on" to fight, meaning that honor motivates him; he then asks what he will do if honor "pricks him off," that is, kills or injures him.

"to sport would be as tedious as to work...by how much better than my word I am..."

harry

who says: "you would pluck honor from the moon and from the sea".

hotspur

who says: "I stole all courtesy from heaven and pluck allegiance from mens heart"

harry

who says: he will starve before he rob further

falstaff

"thus thou speak like a king"

hal says to falstaff

who says "depose me...hang me up by the heels..."

falstaff - Depose is used in the sense that picks up the idea of a king being deposed, of a king being usurped or replaced. That idea of stealing is used saying that he is going to steal the throne and the place of the king

who recognizes who with statement: an old white bearded satan

hal recognizes falstaff

I know what you are and see behind the false fronted playfulness, I know you are a bad influence and know you would lead me from my path and my vocation"

hal says to falstaff

who says this to who: "...In faith my lord, you are too willful to blame..."

earl of worcestor says to hotspur. Even his own relatives recognize the extremity of his pride and vanity, his impatience.

who says this to who: "I could have spared a better men"

hal says as he kneels down to falstaff

"Sblood, 'twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man: but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life."

falstaff defends cowardice after pretending to be dead after douglas "kills" him

..."I fear thou art another counterfeit."

king IV wonders about falstaff

;" he will "imitate the sun/Who doth permit the base contagious clouds/To smother up his beauty from the world,/That when he please again to be himself,/Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at,/By breaking through the foul and ugly mists/Of vapours that did seem to strangle him."

hal's first soliloquy

who uses this to describe themselves: a "gentleman of the shade," or "minion of the moon," or "Diana's forester,"

falstaff

henry IV

-murdered richard II for throne

-threatened by border issues bw welsh and scotts

-becomes diluted of energy and strength

-not a force of nature like he was

-not a great king simply a cartaker of throne

-feels hal is punishment for him and wishes hotspur was son

-

prince harry/hal

-becomes henry v

-prince of wales, arc of play

-golden mean

-pretends to be wild and playboy to "falsify mens hopes"

-stages a dramatic "reformation

-compares himself to "sun" to show glittering reformation to good

-kills hotspur

-considers falstaff father

-poetry and prose

-measures of time

-ends do not justify means

-forces of goodness and virtue

-sir john falstaff

-symbol of tavern

-submissive charac

-old, fat, disgraced knight, rejects honor and links it to violence

-eats, drinks, steals, lying, coward

-loveable

-embodiement of rebellion and disorder

-destructive temptations

harry percy/hotspur

-symbol of battlefield

-killed by hal

-mean through which hal emerges

-represents vices of spirt

-anger, short temper, impatience

-extreme of rashness,

-incapable of strategy

-values honor, manly man, egocentric,

-always anxious for combat, can't sleep, night sweats

-same age as hal

henry percy, earl northumberland

-not great father or loyal to son

-

thomas percy, earl worcester

-very shrewd

-manipulative of hotspur (witholds info from king for hotspur thinking he won't keep his word)

-captured in battle shrewsbury and sentenced to death

-mastermind behind percy rebellion

archibald, earl of douglas

-scottish rebel, deadly and fearless

-freed w/o ransom (captured by hotspur)

-kills walter blunt

-captured by king IV forces and freed by hal for bravery and honor in battle

owain glyndwr

-leader of welsh rebels

-assoc w/ wilderness of wales

-does not fight in battle

-well read and educated

-claims to be able to do magic

-mysterious and superstitious

-"agent from heaven"

edmund mortimer, earl of march

-welsh rebel

-headstrong claim to throne

-accused by henry iv as traitor

-loving relationsihp to wife

sir walter blunt

-trusted messenger to hiv

-dresses as king iv in battle

earl westmoreland

-rides to york w/ john to capture remaining rebels

lady percy

hotspur neglected wife

-witty, patient

-threatens to break "little finger" of hotspur

-assoc w/ fears of emasculation

lady mortimer

-sings in welsh (emphasizing her foreignness)

-communicates w/ husband through loving looks

ned poins

-highway robber

bardolph

likes to drink

peto

barroom friend

gadshill

thief and assoicated of falstaff

works at inn, and is "inside man"

lord john of lacaster

-prince john is mirror charac

proves himself valien and wise in battle

richard scrope, archbishop of york

-conspires on side of percys

-captured by prince john and westmoreland in york

sir michael

-friend of scrope

-takes letter and delivers to rebel forces

sir richard vernon

-known for deceiving hotspur

-captured by kings forces and sentenced to death