As with Rupert Goold's Richard II, the Henry IV ensemble constitutes a veritable thespian who's who, many of whom one can imagine returning to these same parts on stage, Simon Russell Beale as ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Identifying the heart of William Shakespeare’s “Henry IV Part 1,” director Priscilla Lindsay, ...

Henry Bolingbroke has ascended the throne as King Henry IV. Hounded by misgivings over slaying Richard II, he endorses a crusade in the Holy Land but is thwarted by unrest in Scotland and Wales. The ...