The cast of Henry V
The people who make Henry V move — what they want, who they love, who they hate, and how each one fits the story. Tap any name to read more.
House of Burgundy (powerful French vassal)s
French nobilitys
Son of the King of Frances
nephews
Welshs
Daughter of the King of France; sister to the Dauphins
father: Henry IV (deceased); great-grandfather: Edward III; great-uncle: Edward the Black Princes
Father of Katharine; husband of Queen Isabels
Lord of Mashams
Other characters
Pistol
Blustering soldier and comic rogue; a man of empty words and inflated self-regard
Michael Williams
Common English soldier; honest and skeptical voice of conscience
Captain Gower
English captain and voice of soldierly reason
Alice
French gentlewoman and language tutor to Princess Katharine
Nym
Disaffected soldier and petty criminal; comic foil to Bardolph and Pistol
Archbishop of Canterbury
Ecclesiastical counselor and legal scholar; architect of Henry's French claim
Boy
Servant and observer; witness to the war's moral collapse
Bardolph
Disgraced soldier and former tavern companion of Falstaff
Mistress Quickly
Tavern keeper and mourner of Falstaff
The Bishop of Ely
Ecclesiastical counselor and strategist to the King
Montjoy
French herald and messenger; voice of the King of France's demands and negotiations
French Soldier
Captured French nobleman; victim of war's brutality
Westmoreland
English nobleman and counselor to King Henry V
Chorus
Prologue and epilogue narrator; the play's meta-theatrical voice
John Bates
Common English soldier; voice of practical skepticism on the eve of Agincourt
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