Back Cover: HENRY THE FIFTH presents not only Shakespeare's but the typical Elizabethan concept of the heroic monarch. The story of the deeds of King Henry and the "happy few" who made up his army at the Battle of Agincourt has for centuries stirred the patriotism of the English-speaking world. This new edition in The Folger Library General Reader's Shakespeare Series has been especially prepared by two of the world's foremost Elizabethan authorities. As in the other volumes in this distinguished new series, the text is printed on right-handed pages only and all notes are placed on the pages facing the text they explain. The text is also illustrated from contemporary sources.

Publication Year: 1960