![]() ![]() The drama is set in two different spheres: the courtly and political world of fealty and rebellion, the language of which is blank verse, and the carnivalesque ale-house world ruled by Falstaff, the language of which is colloquial, and often bawdy, prose. Henry IV, first printed in 1598, owes its fame and lasting attraction on the stage not to the royal title hero, whose usurped kingship occasions rebellions that burden his reign, but to the character of Sir John Falstaff, the merry, carousing and self-loving paunch (‘this huge hill of flesh’) to whose set of companions Harry, the crown prince, has become attached, much to the grief of his father, King Henry. ![]()
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