Like many of William Shakespeare’s plays, Henry V is very difficult to date with any certainty. The primary source for many of his history plays, Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles, was published in 1587. However, there are some references in the play that place it in the late 1590s. However, the play was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company in August 1600, and the first quarto was printed before the end of the year.
The first performances are also a mystery. Famously, the Chorus in the Prologue asks the audience “may we cram / Within this wooden O the very casques / That did
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