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
- Henry V 1600 Q titlepage.JPG
Title page of the first quarto (1600)
- Henry5.JPG
- Henry
- Henry V Act III Scene i.jpg
A print of Act III, Scene i: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends!"
- Queen Katherine of France - Laura T. Alma-Tadema.jpg
Katharine learns English from her gentlewoman Alice in an 1888 lithograph by Laura Alma-Tadema. Act III, Scene iv.
- 1587 printing of Holinshed's Chronicles.jpg
The 1587 edition of Holinshed's Chronicles
- Henry V F2.jpg
The first page of The Life of King Henry the Fifth, printed in the Second Folio edition of 1632
- Battle of Agincourt, St. Alban's Chronicle by Thomas Walsingham.jpg
The Battle of Agincourt from a contemporary miniature
- Lewis Waller as Henry V.jpg
Lewis Waller as Henry V, 1900
