Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare about King Henry V of England and his leadership of the English army in a war against France that includes the battle of Agincourt.
Bibliographic notesAs with Shakespeare's other plays, there is no "original" manuscript or author-supervised publication of Henry V. The earliest publication of the play known to exist is a quarto edition published in 1600. Two more quarto editions followed before the play was published in the First Folio in 1623 in a considerably different form from the first quarto. Later editions may draw on these and other sources.
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Henry V, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu). Includes a synopsis, essays, early printed texts, and images of related materials.
- The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, With His Battell Fought at Agin Court in France, Together With Ancient Pistoll: As It Hath Bene Sundry Times Playd by Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine His Servants (first quarto of Henry V, 1600), by William Shakespeare (page images at Yale). This is a shorter version of the play, a "bad quarto" that is nonetheless still used as one of the sources for some later editions.
- The Chronicle History of Henry the Fift, With His Battell Fought at Agin Court in France, Together With Ancient Pistoll: As It Hath Bene Sundry Times Played by Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlaine His Servants (third quarto of Henry V, 1608/1619), by William Shakespeare (page images here at Penn)
- Shakespeare's Play of King Henry the Fifth, Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, With Historical and Explanatory Notes (London: Printed by J. K. Chapman and Co., ca. 1859), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Charles John Kean (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Henri V (in French), by William Shakespeare, trans. by François Guizot (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Henry V (based on the 1887 Victoria edition), by William Shakespeare, ed. by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright (multiple formats with commentary at Standard Ebooks)
- The Life of Henry the Fift (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1912), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall, contrib. by F. W. Clarke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Life of King Henry the Fifth (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
- Look for editions of this book at your library, or elsewhere.