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 ...

Henry V's nine-year reign saw a flourishing of royal authority and military action but ended abruptly with his untimely death in 1422 Photos via Netflix and iStock; Photo Illustration by Meilan Solly ...

I’m a fan of England’s King Henry V. Although not a Shakespeare enthusiast, I’ve always been captivated by the film version with Kenneth Branagh in the lead — especially the famous speech: “We few, we ...

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 ...

In my opinion, William Shakespeare’s Henry V is the greatest of all his plays and thus worth your consideration. I note this for two reasons. First, because Henry V centers on the Battle of Agincourt, ...

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 surge of creativity between 1595 and 1599, William Shakespeare wrote not only comedies, including “The Merchant of ...