Six songs from Down are better than a full album of tunes from many other bands. The title of the band's new EP, 'Down IV, Part 1 - The Purple EP,' is incredibly long for an extended play, but it's ...

Women as Hal, Hotspur and Falstaff? It's been done before, and superlatively well, in Phyllida Lloyd's Shakespeare-in-prison trilogy (Henry IV Part One, with several crucial scenes from Part Two, ...

The heights of valor and the depths of guilt, the solemnity of power and the youthful avoidance of it, the inevitability of death and the denial of it—all these things grip the emotions and please the ...

There are a lot of options for where a production of Henry IV can place the focus of Part I. There’s the demonstrably strained father-son relationship, which King Henry curses in the play’s opening ...

Matthew Magnus Lundeen is a writer, critic, and aspiring cinephile trying way too hard and simultaneously not enough. He writes anime features for Game Rant when he isn't trying to write fiction.

Henry IV Part 2 is the second of three parts in The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses. Bitter rivalries erupt into the Wars of the Roses. The feeble King Henry is overshadowed by Queen Margaret and ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The best Falstaffs are generally the more philosophical ones. We think of Shakespeare’s great fat knight as ...