Henry V (play)
Henry V is a play by William Shakespeare. It is called a history play. Shakespeare's source was The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland by Raphael Holinshed. The play was probably first acted between 1598 and 1599. It was first printed in 1600. Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branaugh have both made movies of the play.[1]
Henry V (play) Media
Title page of the first quarto (1600)
- Henry
A print of Act III, Scene i: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends!"
Katharine learns English from her gentlewoman Alice in an 1888 lithograph by Laura Alma-Tadema. Act III, Scene iv.
The 1587 edition of Holinshed's Chronicles
The first page of The Life of King Henry the Fifth, printed in the Second Folio edition of 1632
The Battle of Agincourt from a contemporary miniature
Lewis Waller as Henry V, 1900
