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VIVA BOOKS PRIVATE LIMITED Blooms Shakespeare Through the Ages: Henry IV Part I by Neil Heims
Considered by many to be the most artistically successful of Shakespeare’s history plays Henry IV Part 1 continues to thrill audiences and readers. This invaluable new study guide to one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays contain a selection of the finest criticism through the centuries on Henry IV Part 1 including commentaries by such important critics as Samuel Johnson Elizabeth Montagu Washington Irving George Bernard Shaw A. C. Bradley E Talbot Donaldson and many others. Students will also benefit from the additional features in this volume inclusing an introduction by Harold Bloom ab accessible summary of the plot an analysis of several key passages a comprehensive list of characters a biography of Shakespeare essays discussing the main currents of criticism in each century since Shakespeare’s time and more. Each volume in the Bloom’s Shakespeare Through the Agescontains the finest criticism on a particular work from the Bard’s oeuvre selected under the guidance of renowned Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom. Intended for students just beginning their exploration of Shakespeare these invaluable study guides present the best of Shakespeare criticism from the 17th centaury to today. In the process each volume also charts the flow over time of critical discussion of a particular work. This essential set is unique not only in the range of commetnary it provides on each of Shakespeare’s greatest works but also in its emphasis on the greatest critics in our literary tradition — including such critics as John Dryden in the 17th century Samuel Johnson in the 18th century William Hazlitt and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the 19th century A. C. Bradley and William Empson in the 20th century and many more. Some of the pieces included are full—length essays; others are excerpts designed to present a key point.