Description
The play picks up where Henry IV, Part One left off. Its focus is on Prince Hal's path toward kingship & his ultimate rejection of Falstaff. Unlike Part One, Hal & Falstaff's stories are virtually separate. The two meet only briefly. The play's tone is elegiac, focusing on Falstaff's age & nearness to death. Still drinking & engaging in petty criminality in London's underworld, Falstaff has a relationship with Doll Tearsheet, a prostitute. With news of a 2nd rebellion, he rejoins the army & goes to the country to recruit. He encounters Mouldy, Bullcalf, Feeble, Shadow & Wart, rustic yokels who are to be conscripted into the loyalists, with two of whom, Mouldy & Bullcalf, bribing their way out. He also meets an old school-chum, Master Shallow. They reminisce about their youthful follies.
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