{"id":"01KG8AZJGY3ZK8PBS6Z1HYNVY4","cid":"bafkreieckvuy6c4cpooivf35mmyfxxpqcmnmzmrxmslpilpdc6yk2pbsqi","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreigvmczysc5niqcv74e5ykoetipxpxh3k4ohgvfnaa54nx7aejkcra","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"04_henry_iv_part_2_1921_page_0159.jpg","height":1817,"key":"pdf-page-1769806480404-8psnmcrk79l","label":"04_henry_iv_part_2_1921_page_0159.jpg","page_number":159,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":433753,"text":"King Henry the Fourth\nan admirer, perhaps a friend, of Shakespeare's,\nwrites in a letter dated December 27, 1600 (?): \"I\nam here so pestered with country business that I shall\nnot be able as yet to come to London. If I stay\nhere long in this fashion, at my return you will find\nme so dull that I shall be taken for Justice Shallow\nor Justice Silence.\"\n(2) Dekker in Satiromastix (1602), Ad Lectorem,\nrefers to Master Justice Shallow.\n(8) Ben Jonson in Epiccene (1609), II. v., re\nfers to Doll Tearsheet.\nOf early performances and players of Henry IV,\nPart II, there are even fewer records than there are\nof Part I. James Wright in his Historia Histrionica\n(1699) says that 'before the wars' Lowin acted Fal-\nstaff 'with mighty applause.' Pepys, who attended\nat least three revivals of the first part of the play be\ntween 1660 and 1668, makes no mention of any Res\ntoration revival of the second part. In 1700 Better-\nton, after a triumphant revival of Part I, undertook\na revision and revival of Part II. His version held\nthe stage for many years, and is reprinted in Lacy's\nActing Edition of Old Plays. Chetwood tells an\namusing anecdote concerning Betterton's interpreta\ntion of the part of Falstaff in Part II. Johnson, an\nactor, while playing in Dublin, had seen Baker, a\nmaster-pavior, play Falstaff. Upon his return to\nEngland he gave Mr. Betterton the manner of Baker's\nplaying, which the great actor not only approved of,\nbut imitated, and allowed that it was better than his\nown.\nBetterton's arrangement of the play was as follows:\nAct I begins with I. ii. ; then follow the scene at\nthe Archbishop's, and the arrest of Falstaff fromAct II.","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:54:40.404Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1118},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4MQB10V83VB7VGQ9V7D","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:54:41.950Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:54:44.188Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}