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In Henry IV Shakespeare brings the “green world” of his comedies into the city, transforming it into Falstaff’s tavern world, a symbol of people’s Dionysian life. Falstaff’s tavern world is an urbanized “green world,” one of whose notable qualities is the reviving Dionysian energy, and where politicians like Henry IV and his son Hal should go into a metamorphosis. Yet, Falstaff’s Dionysian world of Eastcheap has not been for Hal a regenerative “green world” where he undergoes a transformation into a Dionysian ruler. At Eastcheap Hal has failed in cultivating certain Dionysian properties: the free pleasuring of the senses, the capacity to live in the present, the love of wit and mirth. His final rejection of Falstaff is not a noble reformation but a banishment of the Dionysian “green world.” However, we end the play with the delightful feeling that Falstaff, an incarnation of the Dionysian vitality, has still proven himself inwardly invincible despite his outward overthrow. Falstaff gives us metaphysical comfort: the Dionysian vitality of nature is at the bottom of the political world, despite all its artificiality, powerful and pleasurable.