<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n Elimination of traitors; introduction of common solidiers; preparation by France<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Chorus: The chorus describes the excitement in England about the coming war \u2013 They sell the pasture now to buy the horse<\/mark><\/em> \u2013 and provide notice that three nobles \u2013 Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey \u2013<\/strong>have become traitors. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Bardolph<\/strong>, Henry\u2019s former tavern companion, prevents two solidiers \u2013 Nym<\/strong> and Pistol<\/strong> \u2013 from fighting over Hostess Quickly<\/strong>, Pistol\u2019s wife, and requires them to become friends. They are interrupted by news that Falstaff is dying. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey are brought into Henry V\u2019s presence, not realizing that he knows they are traitors, and are asked about whether Henry should show mercy to someone who has spoken against it. They say no, and override Henry\u2019s wishes to show clemency. He the reveals that he knows of their betrayals, and they are all condemned to death. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Falstaff has died. Bardolph<\/strong>, Nym<\/strong>, Pistol<\/strong> and Hostess Quickly <\/strong>morn his death. The three men prepare to depart for France, and Pistol bids Hostess Quickly goodbye. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The King of France and the Dauphin plan for the defense of France against Henry \u2013 the King is cautious, the Dauphin is not, being contemptuous of Henry, and ignoring warnings about Henry\u2019s new ethos. Exter enters as ambassador, and asks the King of France to yield to Henry, and returns insults to the Dauphin. The King says he will answer in the morning: \u201cA night is but small breath and little pause \/ To answer matters of this consequence.<\/mark><\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>3. Invasion, part 1:<\/strong> Success as Harlefor surrenders<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\nInitial success: Harlefor surrenders; commoners show cowardance; 5:1 odds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Chorus: Describes the departure of the English navy: \u2026
Play with your fancies and in them behold,
Upon the hempen tackle, shipboys climbing.
Hear the shrill whistle, which doth order give
To sounds confused. Behold the threaden sails,
Borne with th’ invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrowed sea
Breasting the lofty surge. O, do but think
You stand upon the rivage and behold
A city on th’ inconstant billows dancing\u2026<\/mark><\/em>
and notes that the French King offered the hand of his daughter and some small unprofitable dukedoms \u2013 this offer is disregarded (and is reported only after the navy is described as being launched). <\/li>\n\n\n\n- The invasion begins: \u201cOnce more into the breach, dear friends, once more \/ Or close the wall up with our English dead.<\/mark><\/em>\u201d Henry makes a speech as the prepare to advance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The three soldiers show their cowardence in trying to withdraw from the assault \u2013 they are driven back to it by Captain Fluellen. Captain Fluellen then engages in discussions and disputations with three other Captains: Glower, Jamy, Macmorris. [Not quite sure of the point of this scene]<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Henry gives a speech before the gates of Harlefor, saying it is their last chance, and that they will be to blame if they do not surrender and the city is ravaged:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur <\/strong>
Till in her ashes she lie buried.<\/strong>
The gates of mercy shall be all shut up, <\/strong>
And the fleshed soldier, rough and hard of heart <\/strong>
In liberty of bloody hand, shall range <\/strong>
<\/strong> With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass<\/strong>
Your fresh fair virgins and your flow’ring infant<\/strong>
What is it then to me if impious war,
Arrayed in flames like to the prince of fiends,
Do with his smirched complexion all fell feats
Unlinked to waste and desolation?<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- Katherine, Princess of France, has one of her maids teach her English. [The scene appears to be presented in French \u2013 would the audience have understood???]<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The governor surrenders the town, and Henry spares its citizens.
[Neither of these things happened in history.<\/mark>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n- The French nobles are embarrassed by Henry\u2019s successful invasion. But they convince themselves they will triumph, and send an ambassador to ask what ransom Henry will offer when he is captured.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Ancient Pistol has distinguished himself and pleads with Captain Fluellen for the life of Bardoph, who has been sentenced to death for stealing. His plea is rejected, and he departs with a curse. Captain Fluellen talks with Henry, and mentions Bardolph, whose execution Henry upholds. The French Ambassador, Mountjoy arrives to enquire about Henry\u2019s ransom: Henry says \u2018nothing but my body.\u2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The French nobles, confident of their victory on the eve of the battle, boast and banter among themselves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
<\/span>4. Invasion, part 2: Triumph at Agincourt<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n Eve of battle; Henry & Williams & Fluellen; Pistol demands ransom; triumph at Agincourt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n- The Chorus draws a beautiful picture of the two armies the night before the battle, camped across from one another, awaiting the morning. The French confident, the English anxious\u2026 but with Henry moving among them to raise morale.
Now entertain conjecture of a time
When creeping murmur and the poring dark
Fills the wide vessel of the universe
From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,
The hum of either army stilly sounds,
That the fixed sentinels almost receive
The secret whispers of each other’s watch.
Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames
Each battle sees the other’s umbered face<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Henry walks though his camp, in disguise. He encounters Pistol, overhears a conversation between Grover and Fluellen that leaves him impressed with the Welshman\u2019s quality, and argues with a soldier \u2013 Williams \u2013 about the King\u2019s responsibility for the spiritual fate of his solidiers \u2013 they exchange gloves with the intention of dueling later. Last, Henry laments his father\u2019s usurpation of Richard II\u2019s throne. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The French nobles, about to fight, lament that the English are so few and weak.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Henry gives a speech of encouragement again. Responding to someone wishing for more men, Henry says he does not wish for more, and furthermore that those who do not wish to figtht will be furnished with passage home. \u2018I do not wish to share the honor more than I have to,\u2019 is his sentiment. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The ambassador, Mountjoy, comes again to negotiate a ransom, which Henry refuses. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A French soldier surrenders to Pistol, who threatens to kill him unless he provides a ransom. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The French nobles recognize that they have been defeated, and, ashamed, vow that they will die in battle. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Henry hears of the deaths of York and Suffolk; unsure of whether he had victory, when he hears a French call to arms he orders all French prisoners killed. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Fluellen in conversation with Grover compare Henry to Alexander the Great. Montjoy arrives with the French surrender. Williams appears with the glove, which Henry does not acknowledge; but Henry give Fluellen the other glove and sends him after Williams, and then sends others after Fluellen to prevent a full fight. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- William encounters Fluellen, and strikes him. The other men arrive and prevent an escalation. Henry arrives and explains what happens and \u2018pardons\u2019 Williams, and has his glove filled with crowns. [I\u2019m not quite sure of what happens after this, especially between Williams and Fluellen\u2014Fluellen seems to do an about face and now thinks well of Williams<\/mark>.] The scene ends with the numbers of the dead being announced, and Henry giving credit for the victory to god.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n