Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kenneth Branagh as the eponymous king in the 1989 film Henry V - Alamy In 1399, 13-year-old Henry of Monmouth was knighted twice.

I turned 30 a few months ago, but Henry Henry made me feel old. Not just old, but clapped-out, knackered, weary to my bones. The debut novel of Allen Bratton, a young American short-story writer, it’s ...

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 ...

Celebrating fifteen years of making Shakespeare's classic stories new and accessible for Brooklyn audiences, Smith Street Stage, will return to Carroll Park this summer, June 5–29, with a bold new ...

Revivals of this history play usually reflect the politics of the moment. Now a fresh RSC retelling arrives in a world of instability and fractured alliances I have long argued that Shakespeare’s ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced the full cast for its production of Henry V.

Michael Thatcher as Henry V at the Houston Shakespeare Festival. Credit: Photo by Anthony Gollab, Courtesy of the University of Houston Why does an actor in the current Broadway production of Wicked ...

Rulers long have known that prosecuting a war against a foreign enemy is a helpful way of shifting focus from domestic or familial strife. That accusation gets made by one side or another about most ...

In a surge of creativity between 1595 and 1599, William Shakespeare wrote not only comedies, including “The Merchant of Venice” and “Much Ado About Nothing,” but also a quartet of sterner dramas ...

Henry V (Michael Thatcher) wooing wooing French Princess Katherine (Madison Prentiss). Credit: Photo by Anthony Gollab, Courtesy of the University of Houston Shakespeare’s great war pageant Henry V ...