num_pages: 320
description: Featuring the rise of King Henry V, this history play chronicles England's underdog victory over the French at the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War.This revised Signet Classics edition includes unique features such • An overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater• A special introduction to the play by the editor, John Russell Brown• Selections from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland , the source from which Shakespeare derived Henry V• Dramatic criticism from William Hazlitt, W. B. Yeats, E.M.W. Tillyard, and others• A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions• Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable text• And more...
language: English
title: Henry V
titlecomplete: Henry V
characters: Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Mistress Nell Quickly, Corporal Nim, Edward of Langley, 2nd Duke of York, Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, Fluellen, Ancient Pistol, Bardolph, Henry V of England, Charles VI of France, Catherine de Valois
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Historical, Poetry, Drama, School, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 48750
places: Troyes, Southampton, England, Agincourt
series: Wars of the Roses
publisher: Signet