Henry V (Characters of the Play) Lyrics

                                     DRAMATIS PERSONAE

CHORUS

HENRY V

DUKE OF GLOUCESTER – Henry's brother
DUKE OF BEDFORD – Henry's brother
DUKE OF CLARENCE – Henry's brother
DUKE OF EXETER – Henry's uncle
DUKE OF YORK – Henry's cousin
EARL OF SALISBURY
EARL OF WESTMORLAND
EARL OF WARWICK
SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM
CPT. GOWER – an Englishman
CPT. FLUELLEN – a Welsh
CPT. MACMORRIS – an Irishman
CPT. JAMY– a Scot
JOHN BATES, ALEXANDER COURT and WILLIAMS – soldiers
HERALD
PISTOL, NYM and BARDOLPH – soldiers, former followers of Sir John Falstaff
BOY – formerly Sir John Falstaff's page
MISTRESS QUICKLY – hostess of the Boar's Head tavern, and Pistol's wife
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
BISHOP OF ELY
EARL OF CMBRIDGE – Henry's cousin
LORD SCROOP
SIR THOMAS GREY

KING OF FRANCE
QUEEN ISABEL
LOUIS, DUKE OD GUYENNE, the dauphin – their son and the Dauphin od France
KATHARINE – their daughter
ALICE – Katherine's lady-in-waiting
CONSTABLE OF FRANCE
DUKE OF BOURBON / DUKE OF BRITTANY(depending on the edition of the play)
DUKE OF ORLÉANS
DUKE OF BERRY
DUKE OF BURGUNDY
LORD RAMBURES
LORD GRANDPRÉ
MONSIEUR LE FER – French soldier
MONTJOY– French Herald
GOVERNOR OF HARFLEUR
FRENCH AMBASSADORS

Soldiers, Servants, Attendants and Lords

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About

Genius Annotation

This dramatis personae, or character list, was first included in Nicholas Rowe’s 1709 edition, The Works of Mr William Shakespeare, dubbed “the the first edited edition of Shakespeare’s plays”. It recorded a number of the first: the first appended biography of Shakespeare, the first set of character lists, and the first illustrations based on contemporary performances– almost the first performance history.

Henry V appeared in the third of six volumes. Image via Abe Books.

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