Used and Recommended by the National Theatre. ‘This, of the history plays, is The Tragedy … the most lyrical Shakespeare ever wrote’ — Simon Schama. Where Part One crackled with youthful energy and rebellion, Henry IV Part Two turns elegiac: a drama of pathos, regret, and the weight of time. An ailing King Henry IV must once again mobilise his forces — among them the unruly Falstaff — against a fresh uprising that threatens to plunge England into civil war. Yet the conflict troubling him most is closer to home: how to bring his wayward son Prince Hal to accept the burden of kingship and leave his carousing companions behind. Pitting youth against old age, son against father, and carefree hope against the hard realities of power, this is Shakespeare at his most deeply human. General Editor Stanley Wells. Edited by Peter Davison with an Introduction by Adrian Poole.
ISBN 13: 9780141396699
Author: William Shakespeare
