1. This chapter is a revised version of my article, “Shakespeare’s Henry V: Towards the Problem Play,” Cahiers Elisabethains 42 (October 1992): 17–35, which derives from a chapter of “Irony in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy” (1983). I thank the editors of Cahiers Elisabethains for permission to include it in this book. Here are some selected works on Henry V in the past two decades: On irony and ambiguity as part of the craft of acting of, see John Barton, “Irony and Ambiguity,” Playing Shakespeare: An Actor’s Guide (1984; repr., New York: Anchor Books, 2001), 149–66.
2. John S. Mebane, “‘Impious War’: Religion and the Ideology of Warfare in Henry V,” Studies in Philology 104 (2007): 250–66.
3. Theodor Meron, “Shakespeare’s Henry the Fifth and the Law of War,” American Journal of International Law 86 (1992): 1–45.
4. Paola Pugliatti, “The Strange Tongues of Henry V,” Yearbook of English Studies 23 (1993): 235–53.
5. Anne Barton, Essays, Mainly Shakespearean (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).