The Life of King Henry V. William Shakespeare

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       William Shakespeare

      The Life of King Henry V

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664154453

Table of Contents

       Dramatis Personæ

       SCENE: England; afterwards France.

       ACT I

       ACT II

       ACT III

       ACT IV

       ACT V

Dramatis Personæ

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      KING HENRY V.

       DUKE OF CLARENCE, brother to the King.

       DUKE OF BEDFORD, brother to the King.

       DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, brother to the King.

       DUKE OF EXETER, uncle to the King.

       DUKE OF YORK, cousin to the King.

       EARL OF SALISBURY.

       EARL OF HUNTINGDON.

       EARL OF WESTMORLAND.

       EARL OF WARWICK.

       ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

       BISHOP OF ELY.

       EARL OF CAMBRIDGE.

       LORD SCROOP.

       SIR THOMAS GREY.

       SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, officer in King Henry’s army.

       GOWER, officer in King Henry’s army.

       FLUELLEN, officer in King Henry’s army.

       MACMORRIS, officer in King Henry’s army.

       JAMY, officer in King Henry’s army.

       BATES, soldier in the same.

       COURT, soldier in the same.

       WILLIAMS, soldier in the same.

       PISTOL.

       NYM.

       BARDOLPH.

       BOY.

       A Herald.

      CHARLES VI, king of France.

       LEWIS, the Dauphin.

       DUKE OF BERRY.

       DUKE OF BRITTANY.

       DUKE OF BURGUNDY.

       DUKE OF ORLEANS.

       DUKE OF BOURBON.

       The Constable of France.

       RAMBURES, French Lord.

       GRANDPRÉ, French Lord.

       Governor of Harfleur

       MONTJOY, a French herald.

       Ambassadors to the King of England.

      ISABEL, queen of France.

       KATHARINE, daughter to Charles and Isabel.

       ALICE, a lady attending on her.

       HOSTESS of a tavern in Eastcheap, formerly Mistress Nell Quickly, and now married to Pistol.

      CHORUS.

      Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, and Attendants.

SCENE: England; afterwards France.

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      PROLOGUE.

      Enter Chorus.

      CHORUS.

       O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend

       The brightest heaven of invention,

       A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,

       And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

       Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,

       Assume the port of Mars, and at his heels,

       Leash’d in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire

       Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all,

       The flat unraised spirits that hath dar’d

       On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth

       So great an object. Can this cockpit hold

       The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram

       Within this wooden O the very casques

       That did affright the air at Agincourt?

       O pardon! since a crooked figure may

       Attest in little place a million,

       And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,

       On your imaginary forces work.

       Suppose within the girdle of these walls

       Are now confin’d two mighty monarchies,

       Whose high upreared and abutting fronts

       The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder;

       Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.

       Into a thousand parts divide one man,

       And make imaginary puissance.

       Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them

       Printing their proud hoofs i’ th’ receiving earth.

       For ’tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,

       Carry them here and there, jumping o’er times,

       Turning the accomplishment of many years

       Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,

       Admit me Chorus to this history;

       Who prologue-like your humble patience pray,

       Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.

      [Exit.]

ACT I

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      SCENE I. London. An ante-chamber in the King’s palace.

      Enter the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Ely.

      CANTERBURY.

       My lord, I’ll tell you, that self bill is urg’d

       Which in the eleventh year of the last king’s reign

       Was like, and had indeed against us passed