‘The King’ (2019) and ‘Chimes At Midnight’ (1967): Falstaff the Kingmaker?

There live not three good men unhanged in England. And one of them is fat and grows old.

The King, directed by David Michod, is a recently released historical drama on Netflix which adapts the ‘‘Henriad’’ (Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V) by William Shakespeare. Similarly, Chimes At Midnight directed by Orson Welles adapts…