1905 edition; American Book Company, New York; smaller hardbound in dark moss green with gilt lettering on cover and spine; edited by W.J. Rolfe; good condition with unmarked pages; first blank pages have minor folding, otherwise good; no dust jacket.
 
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Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written near 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. In the First Quarto text, it was titled The Cronicle History of Henry the fifth,: p.6 which became The Life of Henry the Fifth in the First Folio text.
 
The play is the final part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1, and Henry IV, Part 2. The original audiences would thus have already been familiar with the title character, who was depicted in the Henry IVplays as a wild, undisciplined young man. In Henry V, the young prince has matured. He embarks on an expedition to France and, his army badly outnumbered, defeats the French at Agincourt.