The next few days will be the anniversary of one of the most important battles in the English-speaking world. This was the brutal encounter on the field of Agincourt on the Feast of St. Crispin, Oct.

In 1399, 13-year-old Henry of Monmouth was knighted twice. The first ceremony was a muddy affair at the fringe of an Irish forest, a reward from Richard II after the English army’s successful raids.

In a comprehensive biography, the historian Dan Jones tries to reconcile the hero of legend with the complicated young monarch of reality. By Stephen Greenblatt Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan ...

Six hundred years before Britain voted for independence from Europe, the Sceptered Isle came the closest it ever has to attaching all of France to its realm. The historian Dan Jones’s “Henry V” argues ...

The actor opens up about how Charles, then Prince of Wales, inspired his performance as King Henry V of England. Before King Charles ascended to the throne of England, he spoke candidly to Kenneth ...

“O for a muse of fire” to properly praise this ambitious, wise, contemporary-in-spirit, production of Shakespeare’s best-loved history play by Virginia Stage Company and Norfolk State University. It ...

The Anglo-Irish political scientist Benedict Anderson once famously defined a nation as “an imagined political community” in which all citizens or residents have at least a vague sense of connection ...

The movies have produced one of their rare great works of art. When Laurence Olivier’s magnificent screen production of Shakespeare’s Henry V was first disclosed to a group of Oxford’s impassive ...