num_pages: 140
description: The Quarto text of King Henry V is of unique importance. It has the authority of being transcribed by actors in Shakespeare's own company as a record of their first performances of the play at the Globe in 1599. Half as long as the 1623 First Folio version, it represents a practical staging text that streamlined the script supplied by Shakespeare. Andrew Gurr examines each variant from the Folio text in detail, shedding new light on what happened to scripts that the Shakespeare company bought from their resident playwright.
language: English
title: The First Quarto of King Henry V
titlecomplete: The First Quarto of King Henry V (The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos)
characters: Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Bardolph, Catherine de Valois, Fluellen, Edward of Langley, 2nd Duke of York, Ancient Pistol, Mistress Nell Quickly, Corporal Nim, Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, Henry V of England, Charles VI of France, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Historical, Plays, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Fiction
ratings_count: 48734
places: Southampton, England, Troyes, Agincourt
series: Wars of the Roses
publisher: Cambridge University Press