Overview
Shakespeare’s masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of Henry’s campaign to recapture the English possessions in France. But the ambitions of this charismatic king are challenged by a host of vivid characters caught up in the real horrors of war. Henry V, which opened the new Globe with the words ‘O for a muse of fire’, celebrates the power of language to summon into life courts, pubs, ships and battlefields within the ‘wooden O’ - and beyond.
Cast
Henry V
Queen Isabel
Duke of Bourbon/Alexander Court
Princess Katherine/ Boy
Duke of Exeter
Montjoy/ Monsieur le Fer/Sir Thomas Grey
Pistol
Louis the Dauphin/Lord Scroop
Captain Gower
King of France/ Nym/ Sir Thomas Erpingham
John Bates/Duke of York
Earl of Westmoreland/Captain Macmorris
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