PROLOGUE.Īnd monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, and Attendants. HOSTESS of a tavern in Eastcheap, formerly Mistress Quickly, and now married to Pistol. KATHARINE, daughter to Charles and Isabel. SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM, officer in King Henry’s army. Shakespeare’s Play, the Biography of the King and Analysis of the Character in the PlayĪnalysis of King Henry V King Henry V, Second Part William Shakespeare and William Hazlitt Henry V His plays remain popular and are studied, performed, and reinterpreted through various cultural and political contexts around the world.

Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, Shakespeare's works have been continually adapted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights. Until about 1608, he wrote mainly tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. Sometime between 15, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men.

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.[ William Shakespeare 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.He is often called England's national poet and the 'Bard of Avon'.His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship.

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