SAYS WIKI: Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in approximately 1599.
Its full titles are The Cronicle History of Henry the fift (in the First Quarto text) and The Life of Henry the Fifth (in the First Folio text). 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.
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 lad known as “Prince Harry” and by Falstaff as “Hal”. In Henry V, the young prince has become a mature man and embarks on a successful conquest of France.
DUKE OF GLOUCESTER: brother to the King
DUKE OF BEDFORD: brother to the King
DUKE OF EXETER: uncle to the King
DUKE OF YORK: cousin to the King
EARL OF SALISBURY
EARL OF WESTMORELAND
EARL OF WARWICK
BISHOP OF CANTERBURY
BISHOP OF ELY
EARL OF CAMBRIDGE
LORD SCROOP
SIR THOMAS GREY
SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM
GOWER & FLENUELL: Officers in King Henry’s army.
MACMORRIS: soldier
JAMY: soldier
BATES: soldier
COURT: soldier
WILLIAMS: soldier
PISTOL, NYM, BARDOLPH
Boy
A Herald.
CHARLES the Sixth: King of France
LEWIS: the Dauphin
DUKE OF BURGUNDY
DUKE OF ORLEANS
DUKE OF BOURBON
The Constable of France
RAMBURES & GRANDPRE: French Lords
GOVERNOR of Harfleur.
MONTJOY a French Herald.
Ambassadors to the King of England
ISABEL Queen of France
KATHARINE daughter to Charles and Isabel
ALICE a lady attending on her
Hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap formerly
Mistress Quickly, and now married to Pistol.
Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Citizens,
Messengers, and Attendants. Chorus.
SCENE: England; afterwards France.
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