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Most critics feel the play stands perfectly on its own, with Hal committing himself to the established order, but his full repudiation of Falstaff comes only at the end of the play's sequel, Henry IV, Part 2, so that this first script ends on a more positive note, with England's harmony temporarily restored. Modern psychiatry may even see Hal not just as Everyman but as the Ego trying to arbitrate between the temptations of the Libido incarnated in Falstaff and the obsessions of the Superego, detectable in Hotspur's fixation on honor-not to mention the Oedipal tensions of sons and fathers throughout. The script also uses history didactically, often approximating to a morality play in which Falstaff seems to be a vice-figure tempting the young prince to betray his obligations as heir to the throne. The alternations of tone and topic-political, moralist, military, domestic-are well-designed to entertain the audience.
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Nevertheless, the script dexterously interweaves its several plot lines, the robbery at Gadshill, Prince Hal's relations with his two father-figures, and the Percys' rebellion, all neatly reaching a dynamic climax in the series of spectacular duels at the battle of Shrewsbury. In performance this figure often becomes grotesquely exaggerated and actors are usually nervous about excessive audience expectations.
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This enormously popular play has always been rated as one of Shakespeare's outstanding theatrical successes, mostly because of the Gargantuan figure of Falstaff, whose witty skepticism transcends the form of the history play and becomes an archetype for humorous self-indulgence (see this humoral Falstaff, plus portrayals by Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, James Henry Hackett, Michael Cronin, and Tony Van Bridge).