Shakespeare’s great patriotic history play follows the young King Henry V as he leads England to a famous victory against the French at Agincourt in 1415. The St Crispin’s Day speech — ‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers’ — is one of the most stirring passages in all of drama, but the play is equally honest about the cost and complexity of war.
Written around 1599, King Henry V works both as rousing spectacle and as a more ambiguous study of kingship and propaganda. This free EPUB is ready for any e-reader.