King Henry IV by William Shakespeare didn't bring forth any new ideas in terms of love. Hal helped strengthen the idea that an absence of love might be the wise way to role. He bears little to no love for his father and his main father figure, Falstaff. His absence of relations to the two is part of his grand scheme that he begins to act upon at the end of the play. If he bore a love for either of these two people, his plan would be non existent, he would be loyal to his father's poor rule and/or loyal to a witty drunk, either of the two I believe to be unfortunate. Yet I don't really know how this series of plays ends, so I can't really say if his absence of love lead to his strength in the end.
There is another relationship I remember that should have contained love, that between Hotspur and his wife. Yet he says he doesn't love her and she doesn't seem to love him back, so this is a very poor example. For the Blue Fox I was able to get away with my "absence of love" statement as there really should have been love, but this play was a comedy and from long ago and an absence of love in marriages and such was common. Overall, King Henry IV Part 1 gave very little insight to the world of love, as no one ever really had any love.
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