Abstract
Part 1 Contexts: critical history - masterpiece, comic history, structures, 19th-century interpretations, 20th-century interpretations - conservative Shakespeare, 20th-century interpretations - ambivalent Shakespeare Tudor history - present and past rebellion, colours of rebellion and problem of truth, rumour's tongues, what is man but his promise, treachery and distrust, grace and favour. Part 2 Text: time - Tudor time, IV - imagery and design, King, Esperance ma comforte - rebels, continual laughter - Falstaff, sunlike majesty - heir apparent truth - oaths, perjury and language, royal duplicity - Henry and Prince John, rebels - divided and dividing, the word of noble - Sir John Falstaff, knight, true prince or princely hypocrite? grace - grace and honour, a god on earth - Henry and Prince John, the king of honour - Sir Harry Percy, Sir John - reforming knight, ungracious boy, epilogue. Appendices: Twelfth Night and temperate mirth swearing and forswearing in histories from VI to Richard.
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