
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.
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
Captain Fluellen/Bishop of Ely
