Henry IV, Part 1
Sources for
Henry IV, Part One:
A Myrroure for Magistrates, 1599
The First Fowre Bookes of the Civile Wars, Samuel
Daniel, 1595
The Chronicles of England, John Stow, 1580
Sir John Fastolf of Nacton
A New Enterlude called Thersytes, Anon.
Endimion, John Lyly, 1591
The Nature of the Four Elements, John Rastell(?), 1519
The World and the Child, Anon, 1522
Brief historical background for
the tetralogies and the War of the Roses
Sources for Shakespeare's
Henry IV
History of publication/
performance for 1 Henry
4
Holinshed on Henry IV
The Oldcastle scandal
Sir John Oldcastle
on
Encyclopedia Brittanica
The Real Fastaff (more
on Sir John Oldcastle)
Paintings based on the Henry IV
plays
