
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.

as Henry V

as Queen Isabel

as Duke of Bourbon/Alexander Court

as Princess Katherine/ Boy

as Duke of Exeter

as Montjoy/ Monsieur le Fer/Sir Thomas Grey

as Pistol

as Louis the Dauphin/Lord Scroop

as Captain Gower

as King of France/ Nym/ Sir Thomas Erpingham

as John Bates/Duke of York

as Earl of Westmoreland/Captain Macmorris

as Captain Fluellen/Bishop of Ely