The relationship between Prince Hal and John Falstaff, a favorite of Shakespeare scholars, is the focus of this condensed ...

These four plays explored the fortunes of three successive kings of England: Richard II (who reigned from 1377 to 1399), Henry IV (1399-1413 ... of Bordeaux and Henry Bolingbroke were grandsons ...

With King Henry IV on his deathbed, Hal mistakenly thinks Bolingbroke is dead and leaves ... Hal's only concern is with becoming King of England. However, the old king is convinced by Hal that ...

The second took place months later, in the more illustrious setting of the Tower of London, at the hands of Henry’s father Henry Bolingbroke, the newly-minted Henry IV. In the interim ...

Dakin Matthews’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts i and ii into a single three-act play covering Bolingbroke’s turbulent reign. In these beloved and gripping epic history plays ...