Daily Journal · Monday, March 16, 2026
Henry Bolingbroke was the first English ruler since the Norman Conquest in 1066 whose mother tongue was English.
Today's Work · Monday, March 16, 2026
Written Exam: Open 3/18 or 3/19, due 3/20 -- WHICH WORKS?
5 minutes, 5 slides: Presentations tomorrow
Andrews, Meghan C. “Gender, Genre, and Elizabeth’s Princely Surrogates in ‘Henry IV’ and ‘Henry V.’” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 54, no. 2, [Rice University, The Johns Hopkins University Press], 2014, pp. 375–99.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/24511208 (Links to an external site.)
Caldwell, Ellen M. “‘Banish All the Wor(l)d’: Falstaff’s Iconoclastic Threat to Kingship in I Henry IV.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, vol. 59, no. 4, 2007, p. 219+. Gale Literature Resource Center.
Fehrenbach, Robert J. “The Characterization of the King in 1 Henry IV.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1, [Folger Shakespeare Library, The Shakespeare Association of America, Inc., Johns Hopkins University Press, George Washington University], 1979, pp. 42–50, doi:10.2307/2869660. JSTOR.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2869660 (Links to an external site.)
Grady, Hugh. “Falstaff: Subjectivity between the Carnival and the Aesthetic.” The Modern Language Review, vol. 96, no. 3, July 2001, p. 609. Gale Literature Resource Center.
https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A79277538/GLS?u=cclc_cerroccc&sid=GLS&xid=24ce9774
Barker, Roberta. “Tragical-Comical-Historical Hotspur.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 3, 2003, pp. 288–307. Gale Literature Resource Center.
Highley, Christopher. “Wales, Ireland, and 1 Henry IV.” Renaissance Drama, vol. 21, 1990, pp. 91–114. Gale Literature Resource Center.
https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1420088284/GLS?u=cclc_cerroccc&sid=GLS&xid=fa9e63ae
Quote of the Day · Monday, March 16, 2026
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should get you pretty near.