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MonkeyNotes-Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
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KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS
SETTING
The play is set in early fifteenth-century England, during the reign
of King Henry IV.
The scenes shift rapidly from place to place throughout the play,
and Shakespeare does not indicate their exact locations. Scenery
was minimal in the Elizabethan stage, and scene-to-scene
transition was rapid and informal, usually marked by one set of
characters exiting the stage and another entering. Changes in
location were signaled through changes in action, characters, and
language.
Early in the play the scenes involving King Henry and the main
plot of the rebellion take place at court. The comic subplot
involving Falstaff and Hal takes place at Hal's apartment, an inn in
Eastcheap and at the nearby Gad's Hill. The scenes involving the
rebels take place at various locations; the rebels meet Henry at
court, Hotspur and his wife appear at his castle, the rebels meet
together at the home of the Archdeacon in Bangor, Wales; and the
Archbishop of York appears at his residence. Toward the end of
the play, the action takes place in and about Shrewsbury, where the
final battle occurs.
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