In my opinion, William Shakespeare’s Henry V is the greatest of all his plays and thus worth your consideration. I note this for two reasons. First, because Henry V centers on the Battle of Agincourt, ...

Walking into Shakespeare’s “Henry V” without having read its synopsis and that of the tetralogy’s earlier plays can be challenging because there is an assumed knowledge that the average audience ...

Henry V (Michael Thatcher) wooing wooing French Princess Katherine (Madison Prentiss). Credit: Photo by Anthony Gollab, Courtesy of the University of Houston Shakespeare’s great war pageant Henry V ...

Rulers long have known that prosecuting a war against a foreign enemy is a helpful way of shifting focus from domestic or familial strife. That accusation gets made by one side or another about most ...

The Anglo-Irish political scientist Benedict Anderson once famously defined a nation as “an imagined political community” in which all citizens or residents have at least a vague sense of connection ...

"I really like the idea of theater being so mobile that you can just throw it in a trunk or a suitcase." Julia Gayden Nelson, artistic director at Bare Bones Shakespeare, loves to mix it up with The ...

This lesson uses video segments from Shakespeare Uncovered to explore the nature of war and its impact on those who fight it – particularly the title character of William Shakespeare’s “history” play ...

‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more’ – Act III, Scene I. BBC Four presents one of Shakespeare’s best loved history plays, Henry V, from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, with Jamie Parker ...

Get a first look at Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production of William Shakespeare’s Henry V, staged by Artistic Director Edward Hall in the Courtyard Theater, now on stage through October 6.

If it were possible to grittily reboot Shakespeare, the result might look something like The King. Based on the Henriad — the series of plays including Richard II; Henry IV, Part One; Henry IV, Part ...

You think you know what to expect in the performance of a Shakespeare play? Burning Coal Theatre Company's Henry V (on Trapeze) will turn any preconception upside down...literally. You think you know ...