A historical chronicle by William Shakespeare Henry IV (1597-1598) describes to a reader full of mutinous passion and bloody conflicts political life of England in the beginning of the 15th century. When Henry IV came first from the Lancaster dynasty, came in power, a lot of bright, colorful and long-remembered people appeared at the historical scene, among them young Prince Harry, Sir Henry Percy nicknamed "Hotspur" and, of course, the jester knight Sir John Falstaff, the greatest comic character of all created by Shakespeare.