HenryV

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HenryV

• Structure, characters, and themes

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Henry VStructure

• Act I -- first turning point
• Henry decides to attack France
• Act II - IV -- two sides gather allies
• midpoint
• La Fleurs
• ends in 2nd turning point
• Henrys speech at Agincourt
• Act V -- climax
• Henry and Katherine

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Henry V Main plot/subplot structure
Henry V
Battle of Agincourt
Dauphin and French Dukes
Fluellen, William
Eastcheap group
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Henry VCharacters

• Protagonist Henry IV, perception of character
  changes
• Antagonists
• Cambridge, Scroop, Grey
• Dauphin and other French
• His own reputation
• William, Pistol, Bardolph
• Secondary -- Reflection characters
• Westmorland, Fluellen, Mountjoy,

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Henry VFoils

• Henry V / Dauphin
• Dukes and Earls of England, Dukes of France

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Henry VThemes

• Quarrels
• England/France
• Bardolph/Nim
• Henry / William
• Different factions within British army
• Honor (the rules of war)
• anniversaries
• imagination/form

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Henry V -- Act I
Scene 1 Court Bishops of Cambridge and Ely
Scene 2 Court Henry V and lords Tennis balls
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Henry V -- Act II
Chorus
Scene 1 Eastcheap Falstaff dying
Scene 2 Henry V Mercy and traitors
Scene 3 Falstaff dies
Scene 4 King of France and Dauphin
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Henry V -- Act III
Scene 1 Henry Battle of Harfleur Once More
into the Breach
Scene 2 Piston/Nim Fluellen and other soldiers
Chorus
Scene 3 Henry V Surrender of Harfleur
Scene 4 Katherine and Alice
Scene 5 French court
Scene 6 English camp
Scene 7 French argue over whose horse is best
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Henry V -- Act IV
Scene 1 Henry at English camp Henrys prayer
Scene 2 French camp
Scene 3 Henry St. Crispins Day speech
Chorus
Scene 4 Piston on battlefield
Scene 5 French
Scene 6 Henry at Battle
Scene 7 End of Battle
Scene 8 Quarrel William and Gowen
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Henry V -- Act V
Scene 2 Henry and Katherine resolution
Chorus
Scene 1 Pistol and Fluellen