By Louise
Link: https://www.patreon.com/shakesceneshakespeare
Available until: Unknown
I find the history plays quite difficult so even though I knew Shake-Scene would do a brilliant performance of this play, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to appreciate it as much as it deserved. But this really is a great production with so many fun moments and it’s very easy to follow.
By Dave
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsevrEUXJHo
Available until: Unknown
Henry IV Part 1 is a history play with a bit of everything.
Maybe not quite everything because there isn’t a romance, but it has drama
(including a lot of fighting at the end) and it has comedy. It has a lot of
great characters, with a great mixture of the historical and the (probably)
fictional. There was a real Sir John Falstaff, but he doesn’t seem to have been
very much like the one who appears in this play.
By Alan
Link for Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_PC19kJl2Q&t=5s
Link for Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=584RluWxGts
Available until:
Indefinitely
Once upon a time there was a Prince named Hal. His father
was the King and as Hal was the oldest son he would become king when his father
died. However Hal did not want to be king. He was far too busy drinking in
taverns and playing tricks upon his friends to have any interest in ruling a
whole country. King Henry IV despaired of his son and his undesirable friends
but he had other matters to command his attention. His old enemy Hotspur was
leading a rebellion against Henry IV so the king had to gather his Arsenal against
him – and he also had to fight a battle wish himself when his health began to
fail.
