King Henry IV faces a rebel coalition while his wayward son Prince Hal carouses with the disreputable Falstaff, until Hal redeems himself by defeating the rebel Hotspur in single combat.
Books that mention Henry IV (8)
The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper: “shut the door;—there come no swaggerers here: I have not lived all this while, to have swaggering now: shut the door, I pray you. —King Henry IV.”
Mrs Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: “…and the subject absolutely barred, the only result would be that Antony and Cleopatra, Othello (because of the Bianca episode), Troilus and Cressida, Henry IV, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, La Dame aux Camellias, The Profligate, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith, The Gay…”
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin: “"He seemed to go through fire and water," … (12) See Henry IV. Second Part.”
Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot: “I will not excuse you; you shall not be excused; excuses shall not be admitted; there's no excuse shall serve; you shall not be excused."--_Henry IV.”
Old Mortality by Walter Scott: “Got with much ease--now merrily to horse. Henry IV. Part I.”
Guy Mannering by Walter Scott: “Henry IV, Part 1. The company in the parlour at Ellangowan consisted of the Laird and a sort of person who might be the village schoolmaster, or perhaps the minister's assistant; his appearance was too shabby to indicate the minister, considering he was on a visit to the Laird.”
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow: “He sounded a note of sleepless despair, reminiscent of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, saying that he experienced “many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep.”47 A man who hated failure, Washington again mused about whether he had erred in acceptin”
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “thought there was a resemblance between Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch and Prince Harry in Shakespeare's Henry IV”