亨利波林布魯克篡奪理查二世的王位之後，成為「亨利四世」，這是莎士比亞在所有歷史劇中，最為成功的一部作品。
　　戰場上沒有永遠的朋友；也沒有永遠的敵人，原本幫助波林布魯克篡位稱王的諾森布蘭一家人，竟然起了謀反之心，欲推翻亨利四世，因而引發了歇魯茲巴立之戰。沒想到在這場戰役中立下大功的，竟然是放浪形骸，平時與流氓廝混的王子，出人意料地立下勝利的戰果，維持了英國政局的穩定。
Review
'The glossary includes much that has been ignored in the past, enlightening the new student...as well as adding to the vocabulary of those who have been enjoying his plays all their lives... an invaluable resource.' – Word Matters
Product Description
Dealing with Shakespeare's history play, this book includes interviews with key Shakespearean directors Michael Boyd and Adrian Noble and actor Michael Pennington, along with an overview of play's performance history.

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About the Author
JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador), which was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as "the best modern book on Shakespeare." In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by HM The Queen 'for services to Higher Education'. ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the Arden Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics series. He is the General Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project - one of the most visited Shakespeare websites in the world. For over nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual studies for the Shakespeare Survey.