Shakespeare, Select Plays

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Excerpt from Shakespeare, Select Plays: The Life of King Henry the FifthIN fulfilment of the promise made to his audience at the end of the Second Part of Henry the Fourth that 'the story with Sir John in it should be continued, Shakespeare wrote the present play, which is called in the first folio The Life of Henry the Fift.' The date of its composition may be fixed with certainty. It is not included in the list of plays attributed to Shakespeare by Meres in his Palladis Tamia, which was published in 1598 and the reference in the Pro logue to Act V to Essex's expedition to Ireland shews that it must have been acted between March 27 and September 28, 1599. In all probability it was first represented in the summer of that year at the recently built Globe Theatre on Bankside. In the entries at Stationers' Hall we find on August [1600] 'henry the Ffift a booke, ' with As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing, and Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, was for some reason or other 'to be staied.' But on 14 August, among the copies entered to Thomas Pavyer is The historye of Henry the Vth with the battell of Agencourt.' This is evidently the quarto of 1600, the title of which is: 'the Cronicle History of Henry the fift, With his battell fought at Agz'n Court in France. Togither with A unte'em' Pistol]. As it hath bene sundry times playd by the Right honorable the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.