NEW YORK---Responsibility reveals the measure of the man. Such is the basic lesson presented in William Shakespeare’s “Henry V.” The Brooklyn Academy of Music presents the play as part of the series “King and Country: Shakespeare’s Great Cycle of Kings.”
With the death of his father, King Henry IV, Prince Hal, who is now known as Henry V (Alex Hassell), has ascended to the throne of England. A formerly wild youth whose tastes ran to drink and petty theft, he has since more than proven his valor in battle, but is still new to the politics and policies that come with being king.
Interesting elements include a warning against overconfidence.
