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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Immortalized beyond the pages of history books, King Henry V became the subject of many literary works. However, his true legacy may be murkier. While many were quick to celebrate him as a hero king, ...

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 ...

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 ...

2012 proved a breakthrough year for Guy Roberts. First, he played the pivotal role of Bakunin in Main Street Theater's remarkable Houston premiere of Tom Stoppard's epic trilogy "The Coast of Utopia." ...

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 ...