{"product_id":"henry-v-isbn-9780812969269","title":"Henry V","description":"With his family’s claim to the throne uncertain, Henry seeks to secure his position by turning the country’s attention abroad. But when his outnumbered army is trapped at Agincourt, disaster seems inevitable. Shakespeare probes notions of leadership and power in this iconic depiction of England’s charismatic warrior king. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnder the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIdeal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.Act 1 Scene 1 running scene 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter the two Bishops of Canterbury and Ely\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCANTERBURY My lord, I'll tell you: that self bill is urged,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich in th'eleventh year of the last king's reign\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWas like, and had indeed against us passed,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut that the scambling and unquiet time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDid push it out of further question.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELY But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCANTERBURY It must be thought on: if it pass against us,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe lose the better half of our possession.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor all the temporal lands which men devout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy testament have given to the Church\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWould they strip from us; being valued thus:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs much as would maintain, to the king's honour,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFull fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSix thousand and two hundred good esquires,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd, to relief of lazars and weak age\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf indigent faint souls past corporal toil,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA hundred almshouses right well supplied,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd to the coffers of the king beside,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA thousand pounds by th'year. Thus runs the bill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELY This would drink deep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCANTERBURY 'Twould drink the cup and all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELY But what prevention?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCANTERBURY The king is full of grace and fair regard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELY And a true lover of the holy church.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCANTERBURY The courses of his youth promised it not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe breath no sooner left his father's body,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut that his wildness, mortified in him,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeemed to die too. Yea, at that very moment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsideration like an angel came\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd whipped th'offending Adam out of him,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeaving his body as a paradise,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eT'envelop and contain celestial spirits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever was such a sudden scholar made,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever came reformation in a flood,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith such a heady currance, scouring faults,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNor never Hydra-headed wilfulness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo soon did lose his seat, and all at once,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs in this king.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELY We are blessèd in the change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCANTERBURY Hear him but reason in divinity,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd, all-admiring, with an inward wish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou would desire the king were made a prelate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHear him debate of commonwealth affairs,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou would say it hath been all in all his study.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList his discourse of war, and you shall hear\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fearful battle rendered you in music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTurn him to any cause of policy,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Gordian knot of it he will unloose,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFamiliar as his garter, that, when he speaks,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe air, a chartered libertine, is still,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo steal his sweet and honeyed sentences,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo that the art and practic part of life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMust be the mistress to this theoric:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich is a wonder how his grace should glean it,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince his addiction was to courses vain,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis companies unlettered, rude and shallow,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis hours filled up with riots, banquets, sports,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd never noted in him any study,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAny retirement, any sequestration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom open haunts and popularity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELY The strawberry grows underneath the nettle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd wholesome berries thrive and ripen best\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeighboured by fruit of baser quality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd so the prince obscured his contemplation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnder the veil of wildness, which, no doubt,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrew like the summer grass, fastest by night,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnseen, yet crescive in his faculty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCANTERBURY It must be so, for miracles are ceased.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd therefore we must needs admit the means\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow things are perfected.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELY But, my good lord,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow now for mitigation of this bill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUrged by the commons? Doth his majesty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncline to it, or no?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCANTERBURY He seems indifferent,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOr rather swaying more upon our part\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThan cherishing th'exhibitors against us,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor I have made an offer to his majesty,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUpon our spiritual convocation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd in regard of causes now in hand,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich I have opened to his grace at large,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs touching France, to give a greater sum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThan ever at one time the clergy yet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDid to his predecessors part withal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELY How did this offer seem received, my lord?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCANTERBURY With good acceptance of his majesty,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSave that there was not time enough to hear,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs I perceived his grace would fain have done,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe severals and unhidden passages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf his true titles to some certain dukedoms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd generally to the crown and seat of France,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDerived from Edward, his great-grandfather.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELY What was th'impediment that broke this off?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCANTERBURY The French ambassador upon that instant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCraved audience; and the hour I think is come\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo give him hearing. Is it four o'clock?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELY It is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCANTERBURY Then go we in to know his embassy,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich I could with a ready guess declare,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore the Frenchman speak a word of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELY I'll wait upon you and I long to hear it. ExeuntEdited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen RSC","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302763974885,"sku":"NP9780812969269","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780812969269.jpg?v=1767728940","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/henry-v-isbn-9780812969269","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}