Henry Bolingbroke has ascended the throne as King Henry IV. Hounded by misgivings over slaying Richard II, he endorses a crusade in the Holy Land but is thwarted by unrest in Scotland and Wales.

You don’t get many opportunities to see Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1, and still fewer to see Part 2. The so-called histories and their Roman numerals put people off, along with all the names ...

Prince Hal, son of King Henry IV, seems to be squandering his life away with the fat knight Sir John Falstaff and the whores, boozers and petty rogues of Eastcheap. But beside these scenes of ...

Shakespeare’s Henry V has long been celebrated as a stirring hymn to English valour, a theatrical counterpart to Churchill’s ...