#HenryV_2024 #Worry #Shakespeare #HenryVI_2025

#HenryV_2024 I saw The King (2019):
Troubled, moody, lively Chalamet as Hal in a truncated tale of his rise to power & French victory. Jarring to see Falstaff in France but welcomed his jovial, stern, paternal presence. Lovely to see Tara Fitzgerald & Robert Pattinson, albeit too briefly. B+

#HenryV_2024 I looked up what the history plays are

ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespearean_history

turns out other than Henriad there are only 3 others, King John, Edward III before, and Henry VIII after. We could read them all before spring! 😀

#henryv_2024 Well isn’t this the perfect ending. The father kills all these French guys to satisfy his ego and his son proceeds to lose it all. Is Shakespeare pointing out the insanity of men?

#HenryV_2024 Day 25, 12/19- Epilogue.
"Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,
Our bending author hath pursued the story,
In little room confining might men,
Mangling by starts the full course of their glory."

Thanks for reading together- and hope to see y'all on Dec. 23rd for #RichardII_2024 !

Epilogue - "with rough and all-unable pen..." the affirmation of all great writers. #henryv_2024

CHORUS
„…
Which of our stage hath shown … “

William Shakespeare
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V.2

Reference to the Lancaster tetralogy Henry IV, Henry V, Richard II.

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King Henry:
O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear Kate,
you and I cannot be confined within the weak list of a
country’s fashion. We are the makers of manners, Kate,

(V.2.261-263)

#henryv_2024 It is a bit emotionally jarring to read all of this love stuff after Henry had all the French prisoners killed. So many soldiers die and these guys are now sweet talking. I guess Shakespeare wanted a happily ever after. 🤷‍♀️

"Come, your answer in broken music; for thy voice is music and thy English broken: therefore, queen of all, Katherine, break thy mind to me in broken English; wilt thou have me?"
Act V s.2
#HenryV_2024 His eloquence, persistence, charm. Her demure deflection is less convincing?

"For these fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhyme themselves into ladies' favors, they do alway reason themselves out again. What! A speaker is but a prater, a rhyme is but a ballad. A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop...but a good heart, Kate, is the sun & the moon--" #HenryV_2024

#HenryV_2024 Day 24, 12/18- Act V s.2, from line 100 "King Henry V: Fair Katherine, and most fair" to end of scene.

King Henry

O fair Katherine, if you will love me soundly with your French heart, I will be glad to hear you confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do you like me, Kate?

Katherine

Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is ‘like me.’

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V,2 (104-107)

When we finish #HenryV_2024 I plan to read my Pelican edition introduction by Claire McEachern and share anything that seems interesting. If so inclined, will you do the same, from your intro or other essay? Blow the film version cobwebs from my brain, please!

V.2 - and then, my good man Ken, with Emma Thompson. So schmaltzy now but so besotted and swooning I was then in 1990. #henryv_2024 youtu.be/ynwah7YV2LY?...

Dame Judi as Catherine. 1960 - BBC tv series An Age of Kings adaptation. #henryv_2024 youtu.be/AkYMpNDVUaM?...

William Shakespeare

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V,2

Theaterwissenschaft Uni München ~ The ‘Elizabethan’ viewer sees the location of the dramatic events through the eyes of the actor, i.e. through the subjective point of view of the character (perspective).

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Queen Isabel:
Haply a woman’s voice may do some good,
When articles too nicely urged be stood on.
(V.2.94/95)

“Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met!”
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Burgundy

. . . let it not disgrace me
If I demand, before this royal view,
What rub or what impediment there is,
Why that the naked, poor and mangled Peace, . . .
Should not in this best garden of the world,
Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?
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V,2 (31-37)

#HenryV_2024 Day 23, 12/17- Act V s.2 to line 99 "Queen Isabel: She hath good leave. (Exeunt all. Henry, Katherine [and Alice] remain.)"

my mood in a country at war of a different kind. #henryV_2024

Chorus is Shakesp’s jump cut, slow fade, title cards. How much bigger and more cinematic Henvy V feels than the other history plays. #HenryV_2024

In 1474, on the Thursday before Laurentii, a rooster was burned along with the egg it had laid. Beforehand, the executioner cut the rooster open and found three eggs inside. This happened in the presence of many people from the city and the countryside. The rare incident terrified the people, as they firmly believed that a basilisk, an animal half rooster and half snake, would emerge from such a rooster's egg. The prerequisite for this was, of course, that the rooster laying the egg had to be seven years old and that the egg had to be hatched in the dung by a snake called a coluber. Although it is no bigger than a few spans long, a basilisk is more terrible and dreadful than the largest lindworm or dragon, as its mere gaze kills. This will be all the less surprising when you know that the beam from a basilisk's eyes is so sharp that it can shatter even the hardest rock. However, the basilisk only has this terrible ability in sunlight. Therefore, people who once had such an animal in their cellar had to keep it closed all year round so that no rays of sunlight could get in. It is also said that bushes or grass that the basilisk walks over withers instantly. It does not crawl like a snake, but walks upright. The most terrible example of the power of its inherent poison is that if someone on horseback pierces such a creature with a lance, it falls to the ground dead. For the basilisk's poison immediately flashes through the lance, rider and horse, killing both man and animal on the spot. There is only one way to kill a basilisk: you have to hold a mirror up to it so that it can see itself. If this happens, it immediately falls over and dies. As an old chronicle reports, a basilisk was once found in a cave under the tanner's fountain that was later built there, where it lived at the time.

QUEEN OF FRANCE
„The fatal balls of murdering basilisks“
William Shakespeare
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V,2

basilisks: large cannons, or mythical snakes whose gaze was already deadly?

Legend of the Basel Basilisk:
In 1474, on the Thursday before Laurentii, a rooster was burned along with the egg it had laid…

What is a “mighty whiffler,” you ask?
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“I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lousy knave,
at my desires, and my requests, and my petitions,
to eat, look you, this leek”
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“Now we bear the king
Toward Calais”
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#HenryV_2024 Day 22, 12/16- Act V Chorus; s.1.
"Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story,
That I may prompt them: and of such as have,
I humbly pray them to admit th'excuse
Of time, of numbers and due course of things."

#MelvilleMonday

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Act V

Chorus

Now we bear the King
Toward Calais. Grant him there: there seen,
Heave him away upon your winged thoughts
Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach
Pales in the flood with men, with wives and boys,
Whose shouts and claps outvoice the deep-mouthed sea

PISTOL And giddy Fortune’s furious fickle wheel, That goddess blind, That stands upon the rolling restless stone— FLUELLEN By your patience, Aunchient Pistol, Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore ⌜her⌝ eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind; and she is painted also with a wheel to signify to you, which is the moral of it, that she is turning and inconstant, and mutability and variation; and her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls and rolls and rolls. In good truth, the poet makes a most excellent description of it. Fortune is an excellent moral.

PISTOL
„Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now?“
V,1

William Shakespeare
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III,6👇