Henry Bolingbroke won the crown, but the fight to keep it has barely begun. But while the king prepares for war, brash Prince Hal and a boisterous crew of robbers, ruffians, and rascals, laugh at the gathering storm. Whirling us into a world where the rule of Henry and the magnificent misrule of Jack Falstaff are about to collide, Shakespeare tells a rousing tale of comic conspiracies, heroic deeds, and of how a prince’s coming of age will shape the fate of a nation–one way or another.