The play was first published as a “bad” Quarto in 1600, which was reprinted in 1602 (Q2) and 1619 (Q3). Copy was a memorial reconstruction of performances.
F provides the authoritative version. Print house copy was Shakespeare’s foul papers (with some consultation of Q3).
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F gives ACTS only
PROLOGUE : line 1 (reads “Prologue begins at line 1″)
ACT 1 : line 36
ACT 2 : line 462
ACT 3 : line 1044
ACT 4 : line 1788
ACT 5 : line 2849
EPILOGUE : line 3367
NOTA : The above act-division is the correct one (since the character of the CHORUS enters at the beginning of each new act). But it is not the act-division of the FOLIO, which is (obviously) imperfect. As Oxford editor Gary Taylor writes in the TEXTUAL COMPANION “Acts 1 and 5 [in the FOLIO] are correctly indicated, but there is no division before the second speech of the CHORUS [lines 462–504]. As a result of this oversight, the FOLIO marks Acts 3 and 4 as 2 and 3, and begins its Act 4 at line 2523, a clearly impossible arrangement “.
The standard SCENE-division (as a whole) was established by Capell (1768)
Prologue: line 1 (reads “Prologue begins at line 1”)
1.1: line 36
1.2: line 143
Chorus: line 462
2.1: line 505
2.2: line 627
2.3: line 823
2.4: line 885
Chorus: line 1044
3.1: line 1081
3.2: line 1120
3.3: line 1259
3.4: line 1320
3.5: line 1378
3.6: line 1449
3.7: line 1624
Chorus: line 1788
4.1: line 1844
4.2: line 2165
4.3: line 2237
4.4: line 2384
4.5: line 2457
4.6: line 2483
4.7: line 2523
4.8: line 2713
Chorus: line 2849
5.1: line 2897
5.2: line 2984
EPILOGUE: line 3367
FINIS @ line 3381
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Entrances & exits of Characters
According to their order of appearance.
• (1,35) reads “enters at line 1, exits at line 35″.
• ([1081] 1119,1144)
reads “character is likely present from line 1081 though actual entrance is indicated at line 1119, at which point character moves to foreground until his exit at line 1144”.
• Conversely, (1136,1258 [1319])
reads “character enters at line 1136 and exits at line 1258 though he probably remains onstage — in the background — until line 1319”.
• PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS are capitalized.
CHORUS:
(1,35) (463,504) (1044,1080) (1789,1843) (2850,2896) (3367,3381)
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURRY
(37,142) (152,461)
KING HENRY:
(143,461) (640,822) (1081,1118) (1259,1319) (1534,1623) (1844,2164) (2258,2383) (2483,2523) (2578,2712) (2739,2848) (2984,3366)
GLOUCESTER:
(143,461) (1081,1118) (1259,1319) (1534,1623) (1844,1880) (2159,2164) (2237,2383) (2578,2712) (2734,2848) (2984,3086) (3269,3366)
EXETER:
(143,461) (627,810) (968,1042) (1081,1118) (1259,1319) (2237,2383) (2483,2523) (2578,2712) (2739,2848) (2984,3086) (3269,3366)
French ambassador:
(381,448)
NYM:
(505,626) (823,884) ([1081] 1119,1144) (RIP 2530)
BARDOLPH:
(505,626) (823,884) ([1081] 1119,1144) (RIP 1550)
PISTOLL:
(530,626) (823,884) ([1081] 1119,1144) (1469,1506) (1882,1909) (2385,2445) (2911,2983)
MISTRESS QUICKLY
(530,588) (614,626) (823,884) (RIP 2976)
Boy (Page to Bardolph):
(580,626) (823,884) ([1081] 1119,1170) (2385,2456)
Scroop, Cambridge & Grey (The traitorous threesome):
(640,810) RIP
KING OF FRANCE (Charles VI):
(885,1042) (1378,1448) (2986,3086) (3269,3366)
DAUPHIN:
(885,1042) (1378,1448) (1625,1715) (2165,2236) (2457,2482)
Constable of France
(885,1042) (1379,1448) (1624,1787) (2174,2236) (2457,2482)
FLUELLEN (Welsh officer):
(1136,1258 [1319]) (1450,1623) (1912,1931) (2525,2698) (2715,2848) (2897,2963)
Gower (English officer):
(1171,1258 [1319]) (1449,1623) (1912,1931) (2525,2577) (2713,2848) (2897,2974)
Governor of Harfleur:
(1303,1319)
KATHERINE (daughter of Charles VI):
(1320,1377) (2986,3366)
Alice (her lady in waiting):
(1320,1377) (2986,3366)
Mountjoy (French herald):
(1562,1618) (2324,2375) (2591,2649)
Erpingham (English officer):
(1847,1880) (2135,2140) (2237,2383)
Williams (English soldier):
(1934,2073) (2646,2682) (2713,2848)
French soldier (captured by Pistoll):
(2385,2445) (RIP 2534)
Isabel (Queen of France):
(2985,3086) (3269,3366)
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THE FRENCH:
CHARLES VI
DAUPHIN
Constable
Ambassadeur
Gouverneur
Mountjoy
KATHERINE
Alice
Isabel
French soldiers
THE ENGLISH:
KING HENRY
Gloster
Exeter
Erpingham
Williams
THE CLOWNS:
Nym
Bardolph
PISTOLL
Quickly
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FLUELLEN
Gower.
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