A treaty after the war made Henry heir to the French throne. Following are details on the battle of Agincourt. The town is now known as Azincourt. Weather : Rain, heavy at times, which muddied the battlefield. Reason for the Battle : Disputed claims to French lands and the French crown.
Outcome : English victory. However, it did not end the war. Deciding Factors : 1 Inability of the French to maneuver. The heavily armed French cavalry and foot soldiers bogged down in the mud of the narrow field.
He is the protagonist, or main character. Now in his twenties, Henry has abandoned the folly of his teenage years, when he caroused and womanized, in favor of concentrating all his energies on being a wise warrior king. He refuses to associate with his old drinking friends from the slums of London in order to preserve the dignity of his office as king. However, he exhibits great sympathy for his beleaguered troops, whether noblemen or commoners, in his struggle to defeat a larger French army at the Battle of Agincourt in There, he exhibits courage tempered with prudence and good judgment, as well as all of the other leadership qualities required of a king and leader of armies.
Shakespeare may have concentrated too much attention on Henry V as a heroic warrior and not enough attention on Henry V as a man. His psyche remains ensconced in his gray matter, unexamined. On the other hand, Shakespeare's depiction of Henry as a nearly flawless superhuman established the young king as a model for monarchs and statesmen of later generations.
The spirit of his fiery, never-say-die patriotism and echoes of his rousing rhetoric have rallied the British in times of crisis down through the ages. Henry grants his request to lead the vanguard of troops at the Battle of Agincourt. He dies at Agincourt. Warwick Thomas Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick : Warrior who fought against rebels at home before going to France to fight valiantly in Henry's war. Archbishop of Canterbury Henry Chichele : Clergyman who advises the king about his right to invade France and claim the crown.
Bishop of Ely John Fordham : Clergyman who joins the archbishop in advising the king about his right to invade France and claim the crown. Captain Fluellen : Welsh officer who is a courageous and loyal leader and prides himself on his knowledge of the history of warfare.
He is also a comic figure who speaks with a heavy Welsh accent. Captain Gower : English officer. Captain Macmorris : Irish officer.
Captain Jamy : Scottish officer. Like Fluellen, Jamy is knowledgeable in the history of warfare. Falstaff is not listed in Shakespeare's original character list for Henry V because he has no lines and does not appear on the stage.
However, Pistol reports his death from an illness 2. Falstaff, crestfallen and brokenhearted, begins to decline in health. His death in Henry V symbolizes the new king's final rejection of his former lifestyle as a carousing mischief-maker. His shenanigans in the Henry IV plays were highly entertaining to the great monarch. In those plays, they were drinking companions of Falstaff and Henry. In Henry V , they are soldiers hoping to practice their trade, thievery, in France.
Bardolph is hanged for stealing a sacred object from a church. Pistol helps to verify the king's good qualities for the audience and readers when he says, The king's a bawcock [fine fellow] , and a heart of gold, A lad of life, an imp of fame; Of parents good, of fist most valiant.
Unlike Henry V, Boy exhibits a very human quality: fear. On the battlefield at Agincourt, he says, ''Would I were in an alehouse in London! I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety'' 3. Hostess : Pistol's wife. She is a hostess at the Boar's Head Tavern in London. Chorus: The chorus one person recites the famous prologue before Act 1.
The prologue asks the audience to imagine that the stage of the Curtain Theatre presents a view of the historical places mentioned in the play, including the battlefields of France. The chorus actor also introduces the other acts of the play and presents a conclusion at the end of the play. Charles VI : King of France. Isabel : Queen of France. Katharine : Daughter of the French king and queen.
After Henry defeats the French, he proposes to Katherine. Alice : Attendant of Katharine. He says of Henry, " What a wretched and peevish fellow is this King of England, to mope with his fatbrained followers so far out of his knowledge! Duke of Bourbon : Jean de Bourbon : Nobleman who urges his fellow soldiers to return to the field of battle at Agincourt after the English gain the upper hands.
He says, Shame, and eternal shame, nothing but shame! Duke of Britaine : French nobleman. The King of France refers to him as Delabreth instead of d'Albret. Lord Rambures David de Rambures : French knight and master archer. Governor of Harfleur Montjoy : French herald.
Monsieur Le Fer : French soldier who begs for his life on the battlefield. Ambassadors From the Dauphin to the King of England Minor Characters : Lords, ladies, officers, soldiers, citizens, messengers, and attendants. Plot Summary Prologue An actor in the role of a chorus appears on the stage. In ancient Greek drama, a chorus commented on and helped interpret the action in a play.
He asks the audience to imagine that the play takes place, in part, on a battlefield between two great countries divided by an ocean.
The stage of the theater, he says, is the world. In other words, Shakespeare will mold history to the confines of his play. For example, in the sixth scene of Act 2, Henry arrives in France. The year is The Story The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Ely are disturbed that England is considering a law that would appropriate large amounts of church money to meet expenses of the Crown, including the cost of military enterprises and welfare for the poor.
Shakespeare, as usual, borrowed liberally from both historical and dramatic sources in writing his play. Holinshed provides the primary history upon which Shakespeare relied, along with the works of Edward Halle and Samuel Daniels. To this, Shakespeare adds material adapted from The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth , an anonymous play predating Shakespeare's work by as much as a decade.
In both plays, the newly crowned King Henry V is characterized as utterly matured from a misspent youth, with a divinely inspired claim to the French throne. But can Shakespeare's King Henry the Fifth be considered historically accurate? And how does the dramatic representation compare to the reality of Henry's campaign in France? Let's take a look how Shakespeare crafted his story to determine how much of Henry V is drama as opposed to history.
Henry V begins with a conversation between two bishops, who seek to convince the king that he is rightfully the king of France. In response, the French Dauphin sends a barrel of tennis balls, mocking Henry's claim. Naturally, Henry decides to invade France to avenge the insult. As the king prepares for war at Southampton, he uncovers a plot against him led by three of his nobles; the men are arrested for treason. In France, the nobility is divided over whether or not to take the English threat seriously.
Then Henry captures the town of Harfleur by exhorting his army and threatening the local governor with all manner of atrocities if he does not yield. The French mobilize a massive force against Henry. Henry's army by now is ragged, outnumbered, and ravaged by hunger and disease.
Despite the dauphin's insistence that Henry is an unworthy opponent, the French king receives the English ambassadors but finally rejects Henry's claim to the crown. Meanwhile, as her father gets his nobles ready to retaliate, Princess Katherine begins to learn English with the help of her companion, Alice.
The English soldiers are in poor condition - disheartened by sickness and foul weather. They begin to retreat, but Henry rejects the French Herald's offer of ransom and the two armies prepare to fight. The evening before the battle, Henry tours the camp in disguise, finding out what his men think.
It leads him to consider the heavy responsibilities of kingship. In the French camp, by contrast, confidence is high. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Themes Motifs Symbols.
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