Henry V, which opened the new Globe with the words ‘O for a muse of fire’, celebrates the power of language to summon into life courts, pubs, ships and battlefields within the ‘wooden O ...

In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed from a ...

The north of England now has a rival to London's Globe Theatre ... the creation of a new theatre that replicates a venue that originally began as a place for Henry VIII to stage cockfights.