Question: Edward "Ned" Poins ", is a fictional character who appears in a play that depicts a span of history that begins with what?

Context articles: Ned Poins
Stanley Bolander
Ned Leeds
Ned Stark
Ianto Jones
Ned Nickerson
Boruto Uzumaki
Ruby (Supernatural)
Henry IV, Part 1
Atticus Finch

Edward "Ned" Poins, generally referred to as "Poins", is a fictional character who appears in two plays by Shakespeare, "Henry IV, Part 1" and "Henry IV, Part 2".
 He is also mentioned in "The Merry Wives of Windsor".
 Poins is Prince Hal's closest friend during his wild youth.
 He devises various schemes to ridicule Falstaff, his rival for Hal's affections.
Stanley 'Stan' Bolander is a fictional character in the American crime drama / police procedural "".
 He is portrayed by Ned Beatty and appears in the first three seasons and the spinoff film "".
Edward "Ned" Leeds is a fictional character, a supporting character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
 A supporting character of Spider-Man, he was a reporter for the "Daily Bugle", and the husband of Betty Brant.
 He was also the third character to take on the Hobgoblin mantle after being brainwashed as a stand in.
Eddard "Ned" Stark is a fictional character in the 1996 fantasy novel "A Game of Thrones" by George R. R. Martin, and the first season of "Game of Thrones", HBO's adaptation of Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
 In the storyline, Ned is the lord of Winterfell, an ancient fortress in the North of the fictional continent of Westeros.
 Though the character is established as a primary character in the novel and the TV adaptation, Martin's plot twist at the end involving Ned shocked both readers of the book and viewers of the TV series.
Ianto Jones is a fictional character in the BBC television series "Torchwood", played by Welsh actor Gareth David-Lloyd.
 A series regular, Ianto appears in every episode of the programme's first three seasons, as well as two crossover episodes of "Torchwood"' s parent show, "Doctor Who".
 Additionally, Ianto appears in Expanded Universe material such as the "Torchwood" novels and audiobooks, comic books and radio plays.
 Within the narrative of the series, Ianto begins as general support officer for Torchwood Three, a team of alien hunters stationed in Cardiff, and develops into an active field agent.
 Initially the regular character with the least screen time, Ianto's role expanded in response to growing cult appeal.
Ned Nickerson is a fictional character in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series written under the collective pseudonym "Carolyn Keene".
 Ned is often referred to as Nancy Drew's boyfriend.
 He first appears in The Clue in the Diary, the seventh volume in the series.
Boruto Uzumaki (Japanese: うずまき ボルト , Hepburn: Uzumaki Boruto ) , originally spelled by Viz Media as "Bolt", is a fictional character created by manga author Masashi Kishimoto who first appears in the finale of the manga series "Naruto" as the son of the protagonist Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuga.
 He later appears as a significant role in the 2015 anime film "" where he is training as a ninja to surpass his father, the leader of the ninja village Konohagakure.
 Boruto also serves as a protagonist in the manga and anime series "."
 In the manga, it starts off with the retelling of the "Boruto" film, while the anime begins with his childhood in the ninja academy where he meets his future teammates Sarada Uchiha, Mitsuki, and his teacher Konohamaru Sarutobi.
Ruby is a fictional character on The CW Television Network's "Supernatural" portrayed mainly by actresses Katie Cassidy and Genevieve Cortese.
 Created by the writers to expand on the characterization of demons within the series, she first appears in the third season, wherein she assists series protagonists Sam and Dean Winchester in fighting her fellow demons.
 By the fourth season, she has won Sam's trust and begins training him to kill demons with his psychic powers, though Dean remains fearful of ulterior motives.
 The character departs the series at the end of the fourth season.
 Though the fans at first reacted negatively towards Cortese replacing Cassidy after the third season, Cortese and creator Eric Kripke felt that they became more accepting as the fourth season progressed.
 While fan response to the character was mixed overall, critical reception was generally negative.
 A common criticism was underwhelming performances by Cassidy and Cortese.
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 (two plays, including "Henry IV, Part 2"), 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.
Atticus Finch is a fictional character in author Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of 1960, "To Kill a Mockingbird".
 A preliminary version of the character also appears in the novel "Go Set a Watchman", written in the mid 1950s but not published until 2015.
 Atticus is a lawyer and resident of the fictional Maycomb County, Alabama, and the father of Jeremy "Jem" Finch and Jean Louise "Scout" Finch.
 Lee based the character on her own father, Amasa Coleman Lee, an Alabama lawyer, who, like Atticus, represented black defendants in a highly publicized criminal trial. "
Book Magazine"' s list of "The 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900" names Finch as the seventh best fictional character of 20th-century literature.
 In 2003 the American Film Institute voted Atticus Finch, as portrayed in an Academy Award-winning performance by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film adaptation, as the greatest hero of all American cinema.