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In ‘Henry V’ Henry is presented by Shakespeare in a number of different roles: as a political figure, a private man, a leader and accomplished solder. Shakespeare’s dramatic portrait relies on presenting Henry through his words and actions, the different people he encounters as a King, and a warrior as well as a lover to Katherine, daughter of the King of France. In his youth Henry, as the audience might be aware from ‘Henry …showed first 75 words of 1780 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1780 total…her and France is just part of the “package”. Shakespeare does not really develop the character of Henry; he begins and ends the play as a strong noble and decisive leader of a great country which reflects both history and the Elizabethan desire to see themselves as a part of great nation. For the audience Henry was undoubtedly a hero: “Small time, but in that small, most greatly lived, This star of England.” (Epilogue, 5-6).