{"id":1875,"date":"2024-04-03T14:20:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T14:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/?page_id=1875"},"modified":"2025-07-11T16:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:27:44","slug":"henry-v-summer-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare-and-his-sisters\/henry-v-summer-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry V"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Presented at the Shire Hall, Lancaster Castle, 29th May – 1st June 2024<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is the production’s Programme<\/a> (scan of original) <\/em>which you may wish to download before watching the filmed performance.<\/p>\n

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Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0Henry V\u00a0 <\/i>(1599) dramatizes the English campaign to France, culminating in the famous Battle of Agincourt (1415). Our 2024 production asked audiences to judge:<\/p>\n

Does Henry V appear as a patriotic ‘mirror of all Christian kings<\/em>‘ ?
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\nas a Machiavellian war criminal bringing ‘famine, sword and fire<\/em>‘?
\nOr both?<\/div>\n

Note: An overview of the play can be found on the Plot summary<\/a> page.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Staging Henry V <\/em>in Shire Hall Lancaster Castle’s historic courtroom puts the king and the play on trial.<\/p>\n

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Curtain call, Henry V (Lancaster Castle’s Shire Hall, 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n

Lancaster Castle has been the site of court proceedings, for centuries, and remains a working court. The historic Shire Hall courtroom with a judges’ bench, jury and witness boxes, and semi-circular public viewing gallery was an ideal venue to put Henry V <\/em>and its king on trial to be judged by audiences. You can join them in making your own judgement by watching the filmed recording and voting, as they did, at the end.<\/p>\n

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Henry V (Part 1, pre-interval)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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