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Henry V (play) facts for kids

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H5 Q2 TP 1602
Title page of the second quarto, 1602

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.



Images for kids

  • Henry V 1600 Q titlepage

    Title page of the first quarto (1600)

  • Henry5

    King Henry V

  • Henry V Act III Scene i

    A print of Act III, Scene i: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends!"

  • Queen Katherine of France - Laura T. Alma-Tadema

    Catharine learns English from her gentlewoman Alice in an 1888 lithograph by Laura Alma-Tadema. Act III, Scene iv.

  • 1587 printing of Holinshed's Chronicles

    The 1587 edition of Holinshed's Chronicles

  • Henry V F2

    The first page of The Life of King Henry the Fifth, printed in the Second Folio edition of 1632

  • Lewis Waller as Henry V

    A photograph of Lewis Waller as Henry V, from a 1900 performance of the play

See also

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