William Shakespeare's play, King Henry IV, Part I, opens with King Henry's two problems including his son Hal running wild with hooligans such as Falstaff. The second and perhaps largest problem is that the Welsh leader, Own Glendower has captured Edmund Mortimer, the leader of one of the King's armies and beaten the army to the ground.
King Henry refuses to ransom Mortimer from Glendower and the heads of the family are outraged, thus Worcester, Northumberland and Henry Percy, who is also known as Hotspur decide to not deliver Scottish prisoners taken in a recent campaign to the King. They also start a rebellion.
Meanwhile Hal, the Prince of Wales, is still running with rogues and acting completely unfit to ever become the King until King Henry has a heart to heart with Hal and Hal decides to fight against the rebels and help his father raise a large army to stop Hotspur and his men.
Meanwhile the rebels are having a rough go of it. Hotspur argues with the men constantly about the division of England if they defeat Henry. Northumberland becomes sick and Glendower's force gets delayed.
Before the true battle begins Hal takes it upon himself to try and stop the ensuing fight. He offers to fight in a one-on-one combat with Hotspur. The winner would be the ruling side. King Henry thinks this a satisfactory deal and offers the rest of the rebels immunity but Worcester doesn't like the sounds of it so he lies to Hotspur and tells him that King Henry will not budge but wants a battle.
So the battle begins and the rebels are defeated and Hal kills Hotspur before Hotspur kills Henry. Falstaff steals the glory away from Hal and all seems okay for the moment but more rebels are spoiling to come to the surface in Henry IV, Part II.
