Six hundred years before Britain voted for independence from Europe, the Sceptered Isle came the closest it ever has to attaching all of France to its realm. The historian Dan Jones’s “Henry V” argues ...

I’m a fan of England’s King Henry V. Although not a Shakespeare enthusiast, I’ve always been captivated by the film version with Kenneth Branagh in the lead — especially the famous speech: “We few, we ...

In 1403, a rebellion broke out in England that would culminate in one of the bloodiest battles to ever take place on English ...

In 1399, 13-year-old Henry of Monmouth was knighted twice. The first ceremony was a muddy affair at the fringe of an Irish forest, a reward from Richard II after the English army’s successful raids.

In this rousing biography, historian Jones (Powers and Thrones) departs from Shakespeare’s portrait of Prince Hal as a wild, roistering youth. In Jones’s telling, Henry even in adolescence was a ...

Given the rioting in England this week, it would seem an incongruous moment for the Classical Theatre of Harlem to stage Henry V, whose famed St. Crispin’s Day speech—bookended by warring ...