| Front | The life of Henry 5 |
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| Back | Last of history plays 1599 The most patriotic of the English history plays Henry displays his political astuteness by quelling a rebellion at home before going on to demonstrate his military prowess in a French compaign Magnanimious in victory he charmingly woos the French Princess Katherine and play ends with their marrige plan 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 (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. In the First Quarto text, it was titled The Cronicle History of Henry the fift,[1]:p.6 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. |
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