Date:1623
Description:Characters listed for Shakespeare’s Henry V. The 'First Folio' did not generally list the characters in a play, but Henry V is an exception. In the Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies there were no women for the female roles which were acted instead by men, or boys. For Henry V, with only Mistress Quickly, the Princess of France and her companion, Alice, this was not a problem. The challenge for Shakespeare's boy actors came with the great parts of Rosalind, Beatrice, Cleopatra, or Portia. Full title: William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories & tragedies published according to the True Originall Copies, London, printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 1623. The 'Ashburnham' copy owned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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Donor ref:SR/OS 37 1623 [1] (32/10663)
Source: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Library
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