Wars of the past are viewed by many as a necessary evil, and certain battles are even thought of as glorious or grand. This perspective overlooks the lives lost on both sides, the trauma so many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kenneth Branagh as the eponymous king in the 1989 film Henry V - Alamy In 1399, 13-year-old Henry of Monmouth was knighted twice.

This year, Riverside Theatre is performing the show Henry V. A turbulent tale that takes a slice out of history, the performance recounts a portion of the Hundred Years’ War between England and France ...

In a comprehensive biography, the historian Dan Jones tries to reconcile the hero of legend with the complicated young monarch of reality. By Stephen Greenblatt Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan ...

Civil unrest, trouble with Europe, a monarchy in peril… it’s not 2022 but the late fifteenth century, and young, newly crowned Henry is eager to assert power at home and abroad. When a humiliating ...

Legend has it that Winston Churchill asked Laurence Olivier to make a film version of Shakespeare’s Henry V to help raise British morale during the worst days of World War II. It was not an entirely ...

In a surge of creativity between 1595 and 1599, William Shakespeare wrote not only comedies, including “The Merchant of Venice” and “Much Ado About Nothing,” but also a quartet of sterner dramas ...