'It is the superbly generous girth of Shakespeare's Henry IV plays that makes them so remarkable' * Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 15.07.10 * 'Shakespeare's story of a troubled usurper, a rebel age, a dissolute prince and his Falstaff.' * Libby Purves, The Times, 16.07.10 * 'This is Shakespeare's masterpeice where diseaeses are turned to commodity, the hostess is eaten out of house and home, citizens are urged to construe the time to their neccessities, and white hairs ill become a fool and jester.' * Michael Coveney, Independent, 16.07.10 *