page_title: Henry V (play)
section_title: Characters
hierarchical_section_title: Henry V (play) / Characters
context_page_description: Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written near 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. In the First Quarto text, it was titled The Cronicle History of Henry the fift, which became The Life of Henry the Fifth in the First Folio text.
  The play is the final part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1, and Henry IV, Part 2. The original audiences would thus have already been familiar with the title character, who was depicted in the Henry IV plays as a wild, undisciplined young man. In Henry V, the young prince has matured. He embarks on an expedition to France and, his army badly outnumbered, defeats the French at Agincourt.
context_section_description: Chorus
  The English
  King Henry V
  Duke of Gloucester – Henry's brother
  Duke of Bedford – Henry's brother
  Duke of Clarence – Henry's brother
  Duke of Exeter – Henry's uncle
  Duke of York  – Henry's cousin
  Earl of Salisbury
  Earl of Westmorland
  Earl of Warwick
  Sir Thomas Erpingham
  Capt. Gower – an Englishman
  Capt. Fluellen – a Welshman
  Capt. Macmorris – an Irishman
  Capt. Jamy – a Scot
  John Bates, Alexander Court and Michael Williams – soldiers
  Herald
  Pistol, Nym, and Bardolph – soldiers, former followers of Sir John Falstaff
  Boy  – formerly Sir John Falstaff's page
  Mistress Quickly – hostess of the Boar's Head tavern, and Pistol's wife
  Archbishop of Canterbury
  Bishop of Ely
   
  The traitors
  Earl of Cambridge  – Henry's cousin
  Lord Scroop
  Sir Thomas Grey
  The French
  King of France
  Queen Isabel
  Louis, Duke of Guyenne, the dauphin – their son and the Dauphin of France
  Catharine – their daughter
  Alice – Catharine's lady-in-waiting
  Constable of France
  Duke of Bourbon / Duke of Brittany (depending on the edition of the play)
  Duke of Orléans
  Duke of Berry
  Duke of Burgundy
  Lord Rambures
  Lord Grandpré
  Monsieur le Fer – French soldier
  Montjoy – French herald
  Governor of Harfleur
  French Ambassadors
  Soldiers, servants, attendants, and lords
caption: King Henry V
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