Henry V

This history play, first printed in 1600, follows the newly crowned Henry V from the tennis-ball insult of the French Dauphin through the invasion of France. A Chorus frames the action as a tale that must be imagined on a bare stage. At court and among the remnants of the Eastcheap tavern world the king sets aside Falstaff's company; on campaign he moves among nobles, common soldiers, and captured towns. The central military action is the outnumbered English stand at Agincourt. The play is a drama of kingship, rhetoric, and war, concerned with how a young king makes a public self before an army and an enemy court.

Quarter bound in blue Nigerian goatskin leather with marbled papers by Ann Muir. Oxford University Press commentary volume by Gary Taylor. Blue solander box with leather label or blue slipcase titled in gold.