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Shakespeare's immutable history of Henry's victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent peace between the two nations is also a study of war and kingship. From a wild youth, Henry comes to embody all of the kingly virtues: courage, justice, integrity and honour. Ironically these qualities are brought to the fore by the realities of war. Written at the end of the life of Elizabeth I, "Henry V" told the British people that with strong leadership, they had little to fear at a time of uncertainty.

Ill INTRODUCTION, I. The date of Henry V, is determined by an allusion in the chorus of A ct V. (11. 30-34): Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from I reland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit Towelcome him !T his is doubtless a reference to the fiarl of Essex, who was sent over to I reland in command of a large force against the rebel Earl of Tyrone in March, 1599. As Essex returned, not exactly bringing rebellion broached on his sword, in September of the same year, the passage must have been written between the date of his departure and that of his return. A reference in the Prologue to this wooden O, that is, the Globe Theatre, a large circular or polygonal building, erected in 1599, further points to that year as the date of the plays production. And Meres, who mentions Henry IV, in his Wifs Treasuryy 1598, makes no allusion to Henry K2. The first edition of the play is the Quarto printed by Thomas Creede, for Tho. Millington and John Busby, and published in 1600. The second edition, printed by Thomas Creede, for Thomas Pauier, 1602, is a mere reprint of the first. The third, printed for T. P. 1608, is likewise printed from Quarto i, but differs from it by a frequent rearrangement of the Unes and an occasional alteration or addition of words. These changes, which are, however, of comparatively slight importance, will be marked in the margin of the facsimile of Quarto 3, Unlike many of the Quartos, those of Henry F. have no value as regards correction of the Folio text. Three lines from them (Q. i., II. i. 79, IV. iii. 43, and IV. v. 16) have been received, as Mr Daniel notes, into many modern editions. But it is doubtful whether even these three lines have any real authority. The Quarto text is a little less than half the length of the Folio; it is without the chorus(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

This new edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated war play points to the many inconsistencies in the presentation of Henry V. Andrew Gurr's substantial introduction explains the play as a reaction to the decade of war which preceded its writing, and analyses the play's double vision of Henry as both military hero and self-seeking individual. Professor Gurr shows how the patriotic declarations of the Chorus are contradicted by the play's action. He places the play's more controversial sequences in the context of Elizabethan thought, in particular the studies of the laws and morality of war written in the years before Henry V. He also studies the variety of language and dialect in the play. The appendices summarise Shakespeare's debt to his dramatic and historical sources, while the stage history shows how subsequent centuries have received and adapted the play on the stage and in film.