The invention discloses a shift register, a display device, a gate drive circuit and a driving method. The shift register comprises a multistage shift register circuit, an Nth shift register circuit of the multistage shift register circuit comprises a precharge circuit, a pull-up circuit, a reset circuit and a holding circuit, the holding circuit is provided with an eighth transistor, a gate electrode of the eighth transistor is connected with a first control signal terminal, and a source electrode is connected with a drain electrode. Not only is shift registering achieved, but also a working cycle of the circuit is reduced, the voltage threshold shifting problem is solved, control of control signals to pull-down nodes is achieved through transistor with the source electrode and the drain electrode short-circuited, the pull-down nodes are lifted rapidly when a first control signals are at a high level, the descend range of the pull-down nodes is reduced when the first control signals are at a low level, and the control of the control signals to the circuit can be achieved well.