This milestone season brings a fresh and urgent take on one of Shakespeare's most powerful and most unsettling histories. Directed by Artistic Director Jonathan Hopkins, Henry V captures both the ...

Othello has long been understood as a play about race ... Some treatments of Shakespeare—including Laurence Olivier’s influential 1944 film of Henry V—envision the playwright’s first ...

Shakespeare ... as a politically astute King Henry V: a valiant monarch who will ultimately lead his depleted army to victory over the French at Azincourt. This play begins with Henry (JK ...

The BYU Young Company is “rizzing” up younger audiences with performances of “Henry V” to help Shakespeare ... However, the play still maintains Shakespeare’s original character ...

Jones, who played an older version of Hal in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s recent 2024 production of “Henry V,” offers a performance ... of Sanders and Jones, play between two and ...

Most famously, in his history play “Henry V” (1599), Shakespeare showed him transformed from the roistering, tavern-loving Prince Hal into the embodiment of martial heroism. The words he gave ...

Perhaps it’s little surprise then that HENRY V, arguably William Shakespeare’s most nationalistic play—or at least his play most concerned with nationalism—opens with an appeal to the ...

That accusation gets made by one side or another about most global conflicts and it’s one way of looking at “Henry V,” the history play by William Shakespeare that opened Friday on Navy Pier ...

Later in Shakespeare’s history play, they win a war. They rise to this occasion, the play so clearly implies, because of King Henry V, or as he’s more commonly called, Harry, or Hal.