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The Life of Henry the Fifth, often shortened to 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 .
The book chronicles the life of Henry V of England. [5] The books covers the period from Henry's accession in 1413 to 1416. [6] References to Sir John Oldcastle being still alive indicate that it was written before 1418.
Henry V further contributed to the church, as he was forced to put down an anti-church uprising in the form of the Lollard uprising led by the English Lollard leader John Oldcastle in 1414, who had been a friend of Henry V before his rebellion. Henry also faced a coup orchestrated by a relative and prominent noble, Edmund Mortimer, in the ...
The St Crispin's Day speech is a part of William Shakespeare's history play Henry V, Act IV Scene iii(3) 18–67. On the eve of the Battle of Agincourt , which fell on Saint Crispin's Day , Henry V urges his men, who were vastly outnumbered by the French, to imagine the glory and immortality that will be theirs if they are victorious.
Shakespeare, in Henry V Act IV Scene 8, has the king proclaim the singing of both the Non nobis and the Te Deum after the victory at Agincourt. The canon is sung in the 1944 film of Henry V (starring Laurence Olivier) and also in the 1989 film of the same title (starring Kenneth Branagh), though we now know that the retexted version was not in ...
The Famous Victories of Henry the fifth: Containing the Honourable Battel of Agin-court: As it was plaide by the Queenes Maiesties Players, is an anonymous Elizabethan play, which is generally thought to be a source for Shakespeare's Henriad (Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V).
Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (c. 1173 –1227) Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (1216–1281) Henry V, Duke of Legnica (c. 1248 –1296) Henry V, Count of Gorizia (died 1362) Henry V, Duke of Żagań (c. 1319–1369) Henry V of England (1386-1422) Henry V of Rosenberg (1456–1489) Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (1479–1552)
Henry V is a 1989 British historical drama film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh in his feature directorial debut, based on William Shakespeare's history play of the same name. It stars Branagh in the title role of King Henry V of England , with Paul Scofield , Derek Jacobi , Ian Holm , Brian Blessed , Emma Thompson , Alec McCowen , Judi ...