Craik, Helen. Henry of Northumberland. William Lane, 1800, 3 vols.
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King Henry IV
Standard Name: Henry IV, King
Connections
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|---|---|---|
| death | Geoffrey Chaucer | GC
, diplomat and poet, died in London. The date is highly suspect, being based on an inscription of a hundred and fifty years later. Some commentators believe that Chaucer (who had recently rented... |
| Literary Setting | Helen Craik | The title-page quotes Virgil
. The preface relates how while staying with a friend in the north the author discovered an ancient manuscript, much torn and defaced in a trunk in a garret. |
| Literary Setting | Georgette Heyer | GH
, not yet entirely identified with the Regency period, sets Simon the Coldheart during the time of Henry IV
, and makes her hero an associate of Prince Hal
in his campaign on the... |
| Textual Features | Henrietta Sykes | Widdrington is an actual village in Northumberland, of which only the tower was still standing until the late nineteenth century. The recent history of the family was Jacobite. In the novel, two sisters suffer fearful... |
| Textual Production | Lucy Toulmin Smith | LTS
, who became Librarian at Manchester College
in Oxford in the same year, edited for the antiquarian Camden Society
a late fourteenth-century text: Expeditions to Prussia and the Holy Land Made by Henry, Earl of Derby (afterwards King Henry IV |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | In this extremely well-populated series, this first Plantagenet led a long procession. Its followers were two novels in 1977, The Revolt of the Eaglets, and The Heart of the Lion (about Richard Coeur de Lion |
| Textual Production | Georgette Heyer | The subject of the book is John, Duke of Bedford
, Henry V
's younger brother. GH
began writing it in 1948 under the encouragement of her husband and of Frere, her editor. The subject... |
Timeline
1397: Two books of ABC were bought for the daughters...
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1397
Two books of ABC were bought for the daughters of the future Henry IV
: Blanche, aged five, and Phillippa, aged three.
Orme, Nicholas. From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy, 1066-1530. Methuen, 1984.
158
29 September 1399: Richard II abdicated from the throne at the...
National or international item
29 September 1399
Richard II
abdicated from the throne at the Tower of London; in effect he was deposed, and the crown seized by Henry Bolingbroke, who became Henry IV
.
Morgan, Kenneth O., editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford University Press, 1984.
192-3
Saul, Nigel. Richard II. Yale University Press, 1997.
420-1
20 March 1413: Henry IV died and his son succeeded to the...
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20 March 1413
Henry IV
died and his son succeeded to the English throne as Henry V
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
: Shakespeare probably completed the story...
Writing climate item
Winter 1598-9
Shakespeare
probably completed the story of his two Henry IV history plays by writing Henry V, in which the charismatic but formerly undisciplined prince makes good as national military hero.
Dobson, Michael. “A Furtive Night’s Work”. London Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2005, pp. 7-8.
7
: Shakespeare probably composed his Roman history...
Writing climate item
Spring 1599
Shakespeare
probably composed his Roman history play Julius Caesar.
Dobson, Michael. “A Furtive Night’s Work”. London Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2005, pp. 7-8.
7
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