Special Introduction to the play by the editor, John Russell Brown, University of Birmingham. General discussion of Shakespeara’s life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. Source from which Shakespeare derived Henry V – Raphael Holinshed: from "Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland". Dramatic criticism from the past and present: commentaries by William Hazlitt, W. B. Yeats, E.M. W. Tillyard. Text and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable type. Name of each speaker given in full. Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page of the play keyed to the numbered lines of the text. Textual note. Extensive bibliography.