More troubled and troubling than <i>King Henry IV Part 1</i>, the play continues the story of King Henry&apos;s decline and Hal&apos;s reform. Though Part 2 echoes the structure of the earlier play, it is a darker and more unsettling world, in which even Falstaff&apos;s revelry is more tired and cynical, and the once-merry Hal sloughs off his tavern companions to become King Henry V. <br /><br />James C. Bulman&apos;s authoritative edition provides a wealth of incisive commentary on this complex history play.