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| Scene | Summary |
|---|---|
| Act 1, Prologue | The chorus (played by one actor) enters and calls upon a "muse of fire" to assist in telling the story of "warlike Harry... Read More |
| Act 1, Scene 1 | The archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop of Ely are talking about a bill that would take lands and money from the Chu... Read More |
| Act 1, Scene 2 | In another room Henry enters with several nobles and attendants. Before Henry agrees to hear what the French ambassador ... Read More |
| Act 2, Prologue | The chorus explains that the youth of England are excited about going to war. Expectations of great deeds and glory are ... Read More |
| Act 2, Scene 1 | In London Lieutenant Bardolph and Corporal Nym are wondering where their friend Pistol is. They joke about fighting and ... Read More |
| Act 2, Scene 2 | As the chorus explained, the story now moves to Southampton, where the conspiracy against Henry is supposed to come to a... Read More |
| Act 2, Scene 3 | In London, Pistol, Nym, Bardolph, Mistress Quickly, and the boy are gloomy because Falstaff is dead. Mistress Quickly ex... Read More |
| Act 2, Scene 4 | In France Charles VI, the Dauphin, the Dukes of Berri and Brittany, and a Constable are discussing how they will prepare... Read More |
| Act 3, Prologue | The chorus explains that the French ambassador had returned to Henry V with an offer of the Princess Katherine and some ... Read More |
| Act 3, Scene 1 | In the midst of battle before Harfleur, Henry rallies the men and orders them to charge the wall of the town again. He a... Read More |
| Act 3, Scene 2 | Nym, Bardolph, Pistol, and the boy are at the wall of Harfleur right after Henry V has given his "once more unto the bre... Read More |
| Act 3, Scene 3 | The governor of Harfleur and several citizens assemble as Henry V comes to the town's walls. Henry tells the governor th... Read More |
| Act 3, Scene 4 | Princess Katherine of France and her gentlewoman Alice are talking together in the French palace. Katherine asks Alice t... Read More |
| Act 3, Scene 5 | The king of France is consulting with the Dauphin, the Duke of Bourbon, the Constable, and others. They are going over H... Read More |
| Act 3, Scene 6 | Gower and Fluellen meet at the English camp in Picardy. There has been fighting at the bridge over the Ternoise River. G... Read More |
| Act 3, Scene 7 | The Constable, the Dauphin, Lord Rambures, and the Duke of Orléans, are talking together in the French camp. The Dauphin... Read More |
| Act 4, Prologue | The chorus asks the audience to imagine that it becomes night and the armies are preparing for battle. The French are ov... Read More |
| Act 4, Scene 1 | In the middle of the night in the English camp, Henry V greets the Dukes of Gloucester and Bedford, who are also awake. ... Read More |
| Act 4, Scene 2 | In the French camp the Dauphin, the Duke of Orléans, and Rambures are up and excited, ready for battle. The Constable jo... Read More |
| Act 4, Scene 3 | Back in the English camp the nobles are worried that the French army is much larger than the English army. Henry V enter... Read More |
| Act 4, Scene 4 | On the field of battle, Pistol and the boy run into a French soldier. Pistol threatens to kill him unless the soldier gi... Read More |
| Act 4, Scene 5 | The French leaders meet on the field, shocked and terrified of the English, who are fighting far better than anticipated... Read More |
| Act 4, Scene 6 | Henry V and some of his men are on the battlefield, having taken prisoners, and Henry exclaims that they are doing well,... Read More |
| Act 4, Scene 7 | Fluellen and Gower enter, describing angrily how the boys guarding the luggage in the English camp have all been killed ... Read More |
| Act 4, Scene 8 | Williams and Fluellen meet, since Henry V had sent them both to fetch Gower to make sure his trick would play out in ful... Read More |
| Act 5, Prologue | The chorus apologizes to the audience for the fact that some of the events that occur in the story are too "huge" to sho... Read More |
| Act 5, Scene 1 | Still in France, Gower and Fluellen have an exchange in which Gower asks why Fluellen is wearing a leek even though St. ... Read More |
| Act 5, Scene 2 | Henry V visits the king and queen of France, Charles VI and Isabel, to come to terms on a peace treaty, although the ter... Read More |
| Epilogue | The chorus wraps up the play by apologizing yet again for its roughness and asking the audience to accept it anyway. He ... Read More |
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