Henry V

by William Shakespeare from c. 1599

About

The newly crowned King Henry V presses his claim to the French throne, rallying his outnumbered army with his famous St. Crispin's Day speech before the astonishing English victory at Agincourt. A comic subplot of bumbling soldiers and Henry's plain-spoken wooing of the French princess Katherine balances the epic scale of national triumph.

Henry V

Characters: 44
Words: 24.5k
Acts: 5
Scenes: 1
Duration: ~3 hr 3 min

Characters

#CharacterPlayerLines

1

KING OF FRANCE

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199

2

CAPTAIN FLUELLEN

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69

3

PISTOL

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63

4

CONSTABLE OF FRANCE

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41

5

BISHOP OF CANTERBURY

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39

6

KATHERINE

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33

7

DAUPHIN

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32

8

DUKE OF ORLEANS

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29

28 sections

24.5k words

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1

Prologue

2441:50

Act 1

2

Act 1 Scene 1

7315:29

3

Act 1 Scene 2

2.3k17:11

Act 2

4

Act 2

3202:24

5

Act 2 Scene 1

9487:07

6

Act 2 Scene 2

1.4k10:21

7

Act 2 Scene 3

4633:28

8

Act 2 Scene 4

1.1k8:06

Act 3

9

Act 3

2441:50

10

Act 3 Scene 1

2732:03

11

Act 3 Scene 2

1.2k8:44

12

Act 3 Scene 3

4333:15

13

Act 3 Scene 4

3832:52

14

Act 3 Scene 5

5193:54

15

Act 3 Scene 6

1.3k9:58

16

Act 3 Scene 7

1.2k8:45

Act 4

17

Act 4

3812:51

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Act 4 Scene 1

2k15:03

19

Act 4 Scene 2

4763:34

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Act 4 Scene 3

1.1k8:08

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Act 4 Scene 4

4263:12

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Act 4 Scene 5

1811:21

23

Act 4 Scene 6

2992:15

24

Act 4 Scene 7

1.5k11:09

25

Act 4 Scene 8

8946:42

Act 5

26

Act 5

3502:38

27

Act 5 Scene 1

7245:26

28

Act 5 Scene 2

3.2k23:50

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