Henry V

Topic: Henry V

1. Verified Sourced Facts

• The local wiki page identifies two secondary sources:

“David Womersley, "France in Shakespeare's Henry V," Renaissance Studies, Vol. 9, No. 4 (December 1995), pp. 442-459”

“The Folio Version of Henry V in Relation to Shakespeare's Times”

• The Womersley article is now locally staged and has been directly checked. Womersley reads the play's France material against the high-political context of summer 1599, including Essexian factional interests and Neville's position as newly appointed ambassador in Paris.
• The same page groups Neville-relevant material under:

“References to Cannons”

“References to Hunting and Hawking”

• The page quotes the Henry V Prologue:

“Behold the ordnance on their carriages,

With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.”

• The same page also quotes:

“the nimble gunner

With linstock now the devilish cannon touches”

• The page quotes Henry V 1.2:

“his mock of his

Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones; and his soul

Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance”

• Under hunting and hawking, the page quotes:

“Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,

Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire”

“I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,

Straining upon the start. The game's afoot”

“When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk”

“You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.”

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• No Ken Feinstein Twitter/blog material is isolated in this packet at present.

3. Quoted Source Text

Henry V wiki page

• “France in Shakespeare's Henry V”
• “The Folio Version of Henry V in Relation to Shakespeare's Times”
• “References to Cannons”
• “References to Hunting and Hawking”
• “Behold the ordnance on their carriages, / With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.”
• “the nimble gunner / With linstock now the devilish cannon touches”
• “his mock of his / Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones; and his soul / Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance”
• “Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, / Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire”
• “I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, / Straining upon the start. The game's afoot”
• “When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk”
• “You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.”

4. Citations

• “Henry V.” Henry Neville Research Wiki, 18 June 2020, http://nevilleresearch.com/index.php?title=Henry_V.
• wiki_henry_v.md, local preservation of the wiki page.
• Womersley, David. “France in Shakespeare’s Henry V.” Renaissance Studies, vol. 9, no. 4, 1995, pp. 442-459. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/24412297.
• Womersley, David. “France in Shakespeare’s Henry V.” Staged PDF: Womersley-FranceInShakespearesHenryV-1995.pdf.
• “The Folio Version of Henry V in Relation to Shakespeare’s Times.” JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/457496.

5. Notes on Access

• The wiki points to these external resources:
• Womersley, “France in Shakespeare’s Henry V”
• “The Folio Version of Henry V in Relation to Shakespeare’s Times”
• This packet currently preserves the wiki’s quoted thematic clusters and source trail. It should be upgraded later by extracting the relevant Henry V text witness and the Womersley/article arguments directly.
• See the fuller play packet play_henry_v.md, which now carries direct Womersley extraction and Folger scene references.