SCENE SYNOPSIS

ACT 1
PROLOGUE: Introducing the story. Setting the scene and introducing the audience to the concept of the play in a theatre.
SCENE 1: Archbishop and Ely are discussing the fact that Henry wasn't taking royalty seriously but recently he'd become more mature. They explain about his right to the French throne.
SCENE 2: They tell Henry that he has his right to France. Dauphin has sent a crate full of tennis balls to make a mockery of Henry. Henry decides to take France.

ACT 2
PROLOGUE: Explains to the audience that we are changing setting and scene. They have decided to go to war. Introducing Cambridge, Scroop and Grey.
SCENE 1: Pistol and Nym are arguing over a bet and money. Enter Nell and Boy. They are informed that Faltsaff is dying and that they must go to him.
SCENE 2: Cambridge, Scroop and Grey are called in to talk to the king. They're tricked into deciding their own fate and are arrested.
SCENE 3: Falstaff is dead. Pistol, Bardolph and Nym all decide to go to war. Boy goes with him.
SCENE 4: The French King and the Dauphin discuss how close and powerful the English - he's worried, the Dauphin is not. Exeter brings a message from the English monarch explaining that King Henry wants the French King to step aside from his throne peacefully - as he's legally entitled to it - otherwise he'll take it by force.

ACT 3
PROLOGUE: Explaining how Henry has left Dover and is on his way to Harfleur. The audience should imagine that they're travelling with him on the ship. The French King has refused Henry's offer.
SCENE 1: Henry delivers a passionate speech to rouse the English army and get them ready to fight.
SCENE 2: Bardolph, Nym and Pistol stay behind to avoid the fray. Boy explains how he wishes he was back in London and in the alehouse. Fluellen attempts to urge the men to start fighting again. Boy explains how Bardolph, Nym and Pistol are thieves and how he refuses to get involved.
SCENE 3: Henry delivers a speech to the Governor demanding that he opens the gates and that he'll have no control over what his men do if they do not let them in. Henry and his men rest until they push for Calais.
SCENE 5: The French King, Constable and Dauphin discuss how Henry is practically just walking through France completely unchecked. The King orders the army to completely take down the English.
SCENE 6: Pistol begs Fluellen to use his influence to spare Bardolph who's been sentenced to death for stealing. Henry tells Montjoy that the although the English army are exhuasted, they won't be backing down.
SCENE 7: Messenger arrives stating that the English are only 15,000 paces away. Orleans and Constable discuss how they're going to completely take down the English.

ACT 4
PROLOGUE: The chorus explains how the English are resting and are worried about the coming fight but the French are almost cocky. Henry walks around the camp consoling his soldiers.
SCENE 1: Henry is in disguise and talks to Pistol, Gower and Fluellen - to see how they are feeling about the whole ordeal. Bates, Court and Williams discuss how they're doubting the King and wish to be back in England. Williams and Henry argue over Henry's actions, they can't come to an agreement and exchange gloves (so that they can recognise the other and argue later). Henry prays to God to make his men brave and for him to forgive him for his father's sins.
SCENE 2: The French are over confident that they're going to be able to beat the English in battle. 
SCENE 3: The English are badly outnumbered. Montjoy brings a message giving Henry a chance to give up. He refuses.
SCENE 4: The battle.
SCENE 6: The English are victors. The Earl of Suffolk and the Duke of York have been killed in battle. Henry orders the English to kill all French prisoners.
SCENE 7: The French have attacked and killed all the young boys who weren't fighting but helping guard and carrying equipment. The French ask for permission to sort out their dead, Henry makes Montjoy agree that they have won. Henry gives Fluellen his glove and tells him if anyone questions him about it, they're an enemy - this is to play a joke on Williams.
SCENE 8: William returns, notices the glove and he and Fluellen fight. Henry admits it was him all along. Herald enters and we learn about the causalities. Henry orders the army through the village and anyone who doesn't thank God the English won, shall be punished.

ACT 5: 
PROLOGUE: The audience are told about Henry's return back to London but that now he is back in France. They're asking the audience to image the physical journey as the theatre couldn't possible possess it.
SCENE 2: Henry and the French King meet to organise a peace treaty. King of France gives Henry and Katherine his blessing.

EPILOGUE: The Chorus explain that Henry and Kathrine have a son, Henry VI but that he lead them to a bloody war and lost France.