'To his credit, Jones does not back away. His narrative of Henry’s life is a chronicle of coldhearted decisions, of sieges and massacres, of close friends executed for their real or perceived disloyalty, of heretics burned at the stake, of a damaged soul incapable of gentleness or love. This was Shakespeare’s problem as well, and it is an artistic miracle that the playwright managed to acknowledge much of what was truly awful about Henry without alienating the audience from him. Instead, his play brings the audience ever closer to what was transpiring inside the lonely young king.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/books/review/henry-v-dan-jones.html