page_title: Henry IV, Part 1
section_title: Adaptations
hierarchical_section_title: Henry IV, Part 1 / Adaptations
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of John Jack as Falstaff in a late 19th century performance of the play.
context_page_description: Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon in Northumberland against Douglas late in 1402 and ends with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of 1403. From the start, it has been an extremely popular play both with the public and critics.
context_section_description: There have been three BBC television films of Henry IV, Part 1. In the 1960 mini-series An Age of Kings, Tom Fleming starred as Henry IV, with Robert Hardy as Prince Hal, Frank Pettingell as Falstaff and Sean Connery as Hotspur. The 1979 BBC Television Shakespeare version starred Jon Finch as Henry IV, David Gwillim as Prince Hal, Anthony Quayle as Falstaff and Tim Pigott-Smith as Hotspur. In the 2012 series The Hollow Crown, Henry IV, Part 1 was directed by Richard Eyre and starred Jeremy Irons as Henry IV, Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal, Simon Russell Beale as Falstaff and Joe Armstrong as Hotspur.
  Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight (1965) compiles the two Henry IV plays into a single, condensed storyline, while adding a handful of scenes from Henry V and dialogue from Richard II and The Merry Wives of Windsor. The film stars Welles himself as Falstaff, John Gielgud as King Henry, Keith Baxter as Hal, Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly and Norman Rodway as Hotspur.
  BBC Television's 1995 Henry IV also combines the two Parts into one adaptation.  Ronald Pickup played the King, David Calder Falstaff, Jonathan Firth Hal and Rufus Sewell Hotspur.
  Adapted scenes in flashback from Henry IV are included in the 1989 film version of Henry V (1989) with Robbie Coltrane portraying Sir John Falstaff and Kenneth Branagh playing the young Prince Hal.
  Gus Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private Idaho  is loosely based on Part 1 of Henry IV, as well as Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V.
  The one-man hip-hop musical Clay is loosely based on Henry IV.
  In 2015 The Michigan Shakespeare Festival produced an award-winning combined production – directed and adapted by Janice L Blixt of the two plays focusing on the relationship between Henry IV and Prince Hal.
  In 2016, Graham Abbey combined Richard II and Henry IV, Part 1 into a single play called Breath of Kings: Rebellion. Henry IV, Part II and Henry V together became Breath of Kings: Redemption.  Both adaptations were staged at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario.  Abbey, in the productions, played Henry IV (Bolingbroke).
  The 2016 app Cycle of Kings features the entire play Henry IV, Part 1 in interactive form, as well as a modern English translation.
  In 2019, Netflix released the film The King, an adaptation of the play directed by David Michôd, and starring Timotheé Chalamet, Robbert Pattinson, and Joel Edgerton.
caption: A photograph of John Jack as Falstaff in a late 19th-century performance of the play.
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