Excerpt from Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Fourth, Vol. 1: Edited, With Notes The play was probably written in 1596 or 1597. Chal mers and Drake advocate the former, Malone the latter date. Furnivall assigns it to 1596 - 7 Fleay to 1596, or more probably 1597 Stokes, to 1597, and to the end of that year, for the date of the entry Seems to suggest that it was a Christmas play. It is mentioned by Meres (see 111. IV. D. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.