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In contrast to the seven editions of Henry IV, Part 1 before 1623 (the date of publication of Shakespeare’s plays in the Folio), there was only one printing of Henry IV, Part 2. In his Introduction to the New Penguin Edition of the play, Peter Davison draws this fact to our attention as an indicator of the difference in popularity of the two plays, though he adds that in his view Part 2 is ‘the more interesting and, in some ways, the greater play’.1
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P. H. Davison (ed.), Henry IV, Part II (Harmondsworth, Middx.: Penguin, 1977).
Stephen Greenblatt, ‘Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and its Subversion, Henry IV and Henry V’, in Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield (eds), Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism (Manchester. Manchester University Press, 1985) p. 44.
Andrew Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
David Wiles, Shakespeare’s Clown (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
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Bassnett, S. (1993). England, the World’s Best Garden: Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V . In: Shakespeare. English Dramatists. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22996-3_7
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