Henry V Live at Shakespeares Globe

Shakespeares masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of Henrys campaign to recapture the English possessions in France But the ambitions of this charismatic king are challenged by a host of vivid characters caught up in the real horrors of war Henry V which opened the new Globe with the words O for a muse of fire celebrates the power of language to summon into life courts pubs ships and battlefields within the wooden O and beyond