Henry V
By William Shakespeare
Cover: The Thanksgiving Service on the Field of Agincourt (1909), illustration by Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1922; published 1909)
The young King Henry claims the crown of France and leads a small, exhausted English army across the Channel. Through the siege of Harfleur and the long night before Agincourt, the play weighs the glory of a famous victory against what it costs the men who win it.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.