Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “At a performance of Henry IV: Part One, Stoddard noted how thoroughly Lincoln enjoyed himself.”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “Sir John Falstaff, the star turn in Shakespeare's Henry IV plays, and Shakespeare's only cre ation who competes with Hamlet in popularity (Bloom refers collectively to both 'Henry IV' plays; canonicalized here to Part 1, where Falstaff is most prominent)”
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving: “casually opened upon the comic scenes of Henry IV., and was, in a moment, completely lost in the madcap revelry of the Boar's Head Tavern.”