That's a great idea - Sir John has always been a favourite character of mine, and that mock-throne "banish not Falstaff" scene is one of the highlights of the Henry cycle for me. Are you going to attempt Shakespearean verse, just use period language, or put it in modern English?

And - are you going to write it so that it could be aired as a radio or podcast drama, without losing vital elements of the story? That way more people can hear it.

You could even introduce a secondary character, closer to the real-life Falstaff, whose eventual fate hovers over the fictional one like a malevolent shadow. Shakespeare kills off Falstaff via illness rather than execution, I gather because the real Oldcastle family got cross with him. But that's a dramatic story in its own right, and I guess enough time has passed to smooth down familial hackles. It also offers fertile scope for a moving scene where Hal - now King Henry - after protecting this man (also an old friend) for so long, now finally has to pass the death sentence on him. Fictional Falstaff could overhear this and be dismayed, remembering how Hal viciously turned on him the minute he became king. (John Oldcastle really *was* asking for it, though.)

BTW, I think you should ask the clones to change the thread title to something more Falstaff-specific, which could attract wider interest - the current one is a bit general and I almost didn't click. Just a thought. Anyway, keep us posted.