Editing Henry V (play) (section)

==Performance history==
[[File:Lewis Waller as Henry V.jpg|thumb|[[Lewis Waller]] as Henry V, 1900]]

The Chorus refers to Essex's 1599 campaign in Ireland without any sense that it would end in disaster. The campaign began in late March and was scuttled by late June, strongly suggesting that the play was first performed during that three-month period.

A tradition, impossible to verify, holds that ''Henry V'' was the first play performed at the new [[Globe Theatre]] in the spring of 1599—the Globe would have been the "wooden O" mentioned in the Prologue—but [[James S. Shapiro|Shapiro]] argues that the [[Chamberlain's Men]] were still at [[Curtain Theatre|The Curtain]] when the work was first performed, and that Shakespeare himself probably acted the Chorus.<ref>{{cite book|last= Shapiro|first=James|title=1599, a year in the life of William Shakespeare|year=2005|publisher=Faber|location=London|isbn=0-571-21480-0|page=99}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Bate|first1=Jonathan|author-link1=Jonathan Bate|last2=Rasmussen|first2=Eric|title=William Shakespeare Complete Works|year=2007|publisher=Macmillan|location=London|isbn=978-0-230-00350-7|page=1031}}</ref> In 1600, the first printed text states that the play had been played "sundry times". The earliest performance for which an exact date is known, however, occurred on 7 January 1605, at Court at [[Whitehall Palace]].

[[Samuel Pepys]] saw a ''Henry V'' in 1664, but it was written by [[Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery]], not by Shakespeare. Shakespeare's play returned to the stage in 1723, in an adaptation by [[Aaron Hill (writer)|Aaron Hill]].<ref>F. E. Halliday, ''A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964'', Baltimore, Penguin, 1964.</ref>

The longest-running production of the play in Broadway history was the staging starring [[Richard Mansfield]] in 1900 which ran for 54 performances. Other notable stage performances of ''Henry V'' include [[Charles Kean]] (1859), [[Charles Alexander Calvert]] (1872), and [[Walter Hampden]] (1928).

Major revivals in London during the 20th and 21st centuries include:

* 1900 [[Lyceum Theatre, London|Lyceum Theatre]], [[Lewis Waller]] as Henry
* 1914 [[Shaftesbury Theatre]], [[F. R. Benson]] as Henry
* 1916 [[Her Majesty's Theatre|His Majesty's Theatre]], Martin Harvey as Henry
* 1920 [[Novello Theatre|Strand Theatre]], Murray Carrington as Henry
* 1926 [[Old Vic Theatre]], [[Baliol Holloway]] as Henry
* 1928 [[Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith)|Lyric]], Hammersmith, [[Lewis Casson]] as Henry (Old Vic Company)
* 1931 Old Vic Theatre, [[Ralph Richardson]] as Henry
* 1934 [[Alhambra Theatre]], [[Godfrey Tearle]] as Henry
* 1936 [[Ring, Blackfriars]], [[Hubert Gregg]] as Henry
* 1937 Old Vic Theatre, [[Laurence Olivier]] as Henry
* 1938 [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane|Drury Lane Theatre]], [[Ivor Novello]] as Henry
* 1951 Old Vic Theatre, [[Alec Clunes]] as Henry
* 1955 Old Vic Theatre, [[Richard Burton]] as Henry
* 1956 [[Stratford Shakespeare Festival]], [[Christopher Plummer]] as Henry, with [[William Shatner]] as his understudy who substituted for him in one performance
* 1960 [[Mermaid Theatre]], William Peacock as Henry
* 1960 Old Vic Theatre, [[Donald Houston]] as Henry
* 1965 [[Aldwych Theatre]], [[Ian Holm]] as Henry (Royal Shakespeare Company)
* 1972 Aldwych Theatre, [[Timothy Dalton]] as Henry ([[Prospect Theatre Company]]), also in 1974 in Roundhouse Theatre
* 1976 Aldwych Theatre, [[Alan Howard (actor)|Alan Howard]] as Henry (Royal Shakespeare Company)
* 1985 [[Barbican Theatre]], [[Kenneth Branagh]] as Henry (Royal Shakespeare Company)
* 2003 [[Royal National Theatre]], [[Adrian Lester]] as Henry
* 2013 [[Noël Coward Theatre]], [[Jude Law]] as Henry (Michael Grandage Company)
* 2015 [[Royal Shakespeare Company|RSC]] and The Barbican, [[Alex Hassell]] as Henry
* 2022 [[Donmar Warehouse]], [[Kit Harington]] as Henry

In the [[Shakespeare's Globe]]'s 2012 [[Globe to Globe]] festival, ''Henry V'' was the UK entry, one of 37 and the only one performed in spoken English. [[Jamie Parker]] performed the role of Henry.

On British television, the play has been performed as:
* 1951 [[Clement McCallin]] as Henry, [[Marius Goring]] as Chorus, [[Willoughby Gray]] as Pistol
* 1953 [[Colin George]] as Henry, [[Toby Robertson]] as Chorus, [[Frank Windsor]] as Pistol
* 1957 [[John Neville (actor)|John Neville]] as Henry, [[Bernard Hepton]] as Chorus, [[Geoffrey Bayldon]] as Pistol
* 1960 [[Robert Hardy]] as Henry, [[William Squire]] as Chorus, [[George A. Cooper]] as Pistol
* 1979 [[David Gwillim]] as Henry, [[Alec McCowen]] as Chorus, [[Bryan Pringle]] as Pistol, part of the ''[[BBC Television Shakespeare]]'' series
* 2012 [[Tom Hiddleston]] as Henry, [[John Hurt]] as Chorus, [[Paul Ritter (actor)|Paul Ritter]] as Pistol, part of ''[[The Hollow Crown (TV series)|The Hollow Crown]]'' TV series.
In 2017, the [[Pop-up Globe]], the world's first temporary replica of the second Globe Theatre, based in Auckland, New Zealand, performed 34 ''Henry V'' shows. London-trained Australian actor Chris Huntly-Turner took on the role of Henry, Irish actor Michael Mahony as Chorus, and UK–New Zealand actor Edward Newborn as Pistol/King of France.