Setting
This castle is located near the final decisive battle between the French and English, giving it its name.
What is Agincourt?
This law states that kingship cannot be passed through the female line.
What is Salic law?
O, for a muse of fire that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
Who is the Chorus?
The kings of France and England go to war over the right to rule this country.
What is France?
The traditional title for the king of France’s eldest son.
What is Dauphin?
This city surrenders after a parley with King Henry.
What is Harfleur?
This character is legally executed for pillaging a church.
Who is Bardolph?
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages...
Who is Henry V?
This country's army had the most casualties in the final battle of the play.
What is France?
This stage direction indicates that multiple people should exit.
What is exeunt?
This is one of two saints' days mentioned in this play.
What is either Saint Crispian/Crispianin's or Saint Davy's Day?
This is the price paid to release a high-standing hostage in war; the Herald taunts King Henry to set his own.
What is a ransom?
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more..."
Who is Henry V?
The crown prince of France sends these to Henry V to mock him.
What are tennis balls?
A synonym for troth-plight, Hostess Nell Quickly broke this with Corporal Nym.
What is her engagement/betrothal?
At the end of the play, terms of peace are finalized at this location.
What is the French royal palace?
The Earl of Cambridge is executed for this crime.
What is treason?
"The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon..."
Who is Fluellen?
Once a beloved friend of King Henry, this character dies, as he does everything else in this play, offstage.
Who is Falstaff?
Shakespeare means this by the command "hie."
What is go quickly?
Nym and Bardolph are in this city when they are first introduced in Henry V.
Where is London?
According to Fluellen, this activity by the French "is expressly against the law of arms."
What is killing the boys in the luggage?
“He’ll make your Paris Louvre shake for it.”
Who is Exeter?
This is King Henry’s main condition for peace with France at the end of the play.
What is marriage to Katherine?
While easily confused with its homophone, this unit measures the amount of volume a large wine cask can hold, not the amount of weight that might bury the poor Herald transporting it.
What is a tun?