This paper discusses how the relationship between Falstaff and Prince Hal is among the most interesting, most talked about,
and most analyzed story lines in all of William Shakespeare's plays, and for good literary reason. It looks at how even a cursory description of the dramatic emotional, intellectual, socioeconomic, psychological, and physical differences between the characters, and between their manners and styles, sets up a myriad of potential juxtapositions from which to attack existing analyses or forge fresh ones.