x

  x

  2 Beadle *

  x

  3

  Prince Henry

  x

  x

  x

  x

  x

  Mowbray

  x

  x

  4

  Northumberland

  x

  x

  Justice Shallow

  x

  x

  x

  x

  Westmorland

  x

  x

  x

  Peto

  x

  Gower

  x

  5

  Archbishop

  x

  x

  Justice Silence

  x

  x

  Morton

  x

  Servant to Ch. J.

  x

  Drawer

  x

  2 Strewer

  x

  6

  Bardolph

  x

  x

  x

  x

  x

  x

  x

  x

  Rumour

  x

  Travers

  x

  7

  Poins

  x

  x

  Prince John

  x

  x

  x

  x

  x

  Snare

  x

  Shadow

  x

  Porter

  x

  1 Beadle

  x

  8

  Pistol

  x

  x

  x

  Warwick

  x

  x

  x

  Lord Bardolph

  x

  x

  Mouldy

  x

  Collevile

  x

  9

  Hastings

  x

  x

  Fang

  x

  Francis

  x

  Surrey*

  x

  Bullcalf

  x

  Harcourt

  x

  Davy

  x

  x

  1 Strewer

  x

  10

  Page to Falstaff

  x

  x

  x

  x

  x

  x

  x

  x

  11

  Hostess

  x

  x

  x

  Lady Northumb.

  x

  Page to King*

  x

  Feeble

  x

  Humphrey

  x

  x

  x

  12

  Doll Tearsheet

  x

  x

  Lady Percy

  x

  Wart

  x

  Thomas

  x

  x

  x

  x

  * non-speaking role

  Other non-speaking roles (Attendants, Servants, Musicians, a Captain and Soldiers), while not necessary to a performance, may be played by actors as available.

  * * *

  1 As evidence of doubling as a common practice in Elizabethan theatre, Kastan (1H4, 354) cites an account in Chambers (Elizabethan, 2.364) that a Swiss visitor to London in 1599 reported attending a performance of Julius Caesar at the Globe in which forty roles were played by ‘approximately fifteen actors’. Presumably a company on tour would have had even fewer.

  ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES

  Quotations from and references to Shakespeare plays other than 2 Henry IV are from individual volumes of The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series, when available; from The Arden Shakespeare, Second Series, when not. Biblical quotations are from the Bishops’ Bible (1568) except when the Geneva Bible (1560) is indicated. In all references, the place of publication is London unless otherwise noted. Abbreviations of parts of speech are those used in the OED (2nd edn).

  ABBREVIATIONS

  ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES

  *

  precedes commentary notes involving readings altered from the quarto edition of 1600 (Qa) on which this edition is based

  ( )

  enclosing a reading in the textual notes indicates original spelling; enclosing an editor’s or scholar’s name indicates a conjectural reading

  corr

  corrected state

  conj.

  conjecture

  dir.

  directed by

  ed., eds

  editor, edited by, editors

  edn

  edition

  F

  First Folio

  F, F

  superscripts encasing material adopted from the First Folio

  n.

  (in cross-references) commentary note

  n.d.

  no date

  n.s.

  new series

  om.

  omitted in

  opp.

  opposite

  Qa

  1600 Quarto, first issue

  Qb

  1600 Quarto, second issue

  rev.

  revised (by)

  rpt.

  reprinted in

  SD

  stage direction

  sig.

  signature

  SP

  speech prefix

  subst.

  substantially

  this edn

  reading adopted for the first time in this edition

  TLN

  through line numbering

  t.n.

  textual note

  trans.

  translated by

  uncorr

  uncorrected state

  var.

  variant

  WORKS BY AND PARTLY BY SHAKESPEARE

  AC

  Antony and Cleopatra

  AW

  All’s Well That Ends Well

  AYL

  As You Like It

  CE

  The Comedy of Errors

  Cor

  Coriolanus

  Cym

  Cymbeline

  DF

  Double Falsehood

  E3

  King Edward III

  Ham

  Hamlet

  1H4

  King Henry IV, Part 1

  2H4

  King Henry IV, Part 2

  H5

  King Henry V

  1H6

  King Henry VI, Part 1

  2H6

  King Henry VI, Part 2

  3H6

  King Henry VI, Part 3

  H8

  King Henry VIII

  JC

  Julius Caesar

  KJ

  King John

  KL

  King Lear

  LC

  A Lover’s Complaint

  LLL

  Love’s Labour’s Lost

  Luc

  The Rape of Lucrece

  MA

  Much Ado About Nothing

  Mac

  Macbeth

  MM

  Measure for Measure

  MND

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  MV

  The Merchant of Venice

  MW

  The Merry Wives of Windsor

  Oth

  Othello

  Per

  Pericles

  PP

  The Passionate Pilgrim

  PT

  The Phoenix and Turtle

  R2

  King Richard II

  R3

  King Richard III

  RJ

  Romeo and Juliet

  Son

  Sonnets

  STM

  Sir Thomas More

  TC

  Troilus and Cressida

  Tem

  The Tempest

  TGV

  The Two Gentlemen of Verona

  Tim

  Timon of Athens

  Tit

  Titus Andronicus

  TN

  Twelfth Night

  TNK

  The Two Noble Kinsmen

  TS

  The Taming of the Shrew

  VA

  Venus and Adonis

  WT

  The Winter’s Tale

  REFERENCES