text: what is your favorite play/poem by shakespeare? i need one for school ^^ henry v ... there is something in there for everyone.  war, war and more war !   henry was a warrior king ... with only 500 soldiers, he took france ... the next largest world power at the time.  at the battle of agincourt, he and his 500 faced over 30,000 french ... henry won loosing only 24 men and leaving over 10,000 dead frenchmen in the field ... do the math ... that's a 1:60 ratio but a 1:20 kill ratio.  wow !  romance:  he was a real sweatheart too.  when he recieved the hand of the french princess, katherine, and was asked by the archbishop if he would teach her english, henry replied, "i will have her learn how perfectly i love her, and that is good english."  intrigue:  how they discover the plot against him before leaving for war and the oh, "so owned" way he confronts his traitors.  humor:  the sceens of his youth and interactions with his noblemen are full of humor and jest.  a lot of good shakespearian slams in that book too ... you know, off-handed insults (that you can use today and people don't know if you're slamming them or not) ... "do thou amend thy face, and i will amend my life."  ... "put thy face between the sheets and do the office of a woman pay."   think about that one ... he was telling the other guy to suck his d*ck long before you would have ever imagined that they did those things !   lol  there is so much there ... everyone can grab something wonderful from that play.