Katharine's English lesson — Shakespeare's only all-French scene, from "de hand" to the scandal of "de coun".

"Norman bastards!" — French fury at the Somme crossing, the mocking madams, and the great muster of names.

Bardolph condemned to hang, Fluellen's "discipline ought to be used" — and Henry's disarming answer to Montjoy's defiance.

The French camp before Agincourt: "my horse is my mistress", the hooded valour, and a hundred Englishmen each by ten o'clock.

Henry's triumphant return to London, the refused victory parade — and Shakespeare's famous Essex allusion, the key to dating the play.

The disguised King debates responsibility with Williams, dismantles ceremony, and prays over his father's stolen crown.

The French dress for a triumph: the "fair show", and Grandpré's pitiless portrait of the scarecrow English.

The St Crispin's Day speech – "we few, we happy few, we band of brothers" – and the last refusal of ransom.

Pistol ransoms Monsieur le Fer for two hundred crowns — and the Boy delivers the "empty vessel" verdict.

"Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!" — the French collapse at Agincourt, in twenty-four lines.

York and Suffolk die kiss to kiss — and seconds later Henry orders every soldier to kill his prisoners.

The killing of the boys, Fluellen's "Alexander the Pig", and Montjoy's four-word surrender: "The day is yours."

The glove trick resolved with a glove full of crowns – and the Agincourt casualty lists that turn victory into miracle.

Henry's triumphant return to London, the refused victory parade — and Shakespeare's famous Essex allusion, the key to dating the play.

Fluellen makes Pistol eat the leek, Gower delivers the verdict — and Pistol's bleak exit closes the Eastcheap story.

Burgundy's ruined garden of France, the wooing of Katharine, and the treaty that turns conquest into marriage.

The Chorus's closing sonnet: Henry crowned "this star of England" – and the loss of France foretold in the same breath.

Two bishops, one threatened fortune, and a war quietly set in motion.

Two bishops, one threatened fortune, and a war quietly set in motion.

Two bishops, one threatened fortune, and a war quietly set in motion.