Henry V (Barnes & Noble Shakespeare)

Henry V,by William Shakespeare, is part of the Barnes & Noble Shakespeareseries. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world's foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastanof Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote. Each volume in the Barnes & Noble Shakespeareincludes: The story of England's greatest warrior king, Henry Voffers a compelling demonstration of the moral costs of heroic action. The editor Ben Robinson, clarifies a host of contemporary terms and references in the play, offering a dramatically clearer version of the play than has been seen before.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) wrote 37 plays. King Lear and Macbeth are widely considered his finest and most popular. They are, perhaps, the most frequently produced works on the planet.