May 23, 2019
Variations on a Speech for the Ages
If one searches the Web for videos of the “St. Crispin’s Day Speech” from Shakespeare’s Henry V, one will find that there are a lot of folks, including girls and even one boy on his third birthday who’ve had their renditions archived at YouTube for all the world to hear. One will learn of these attempts at oratorical glory if one is seeking a clip for an article on a movie by the name of Anonymous, as I was recently. At the beginning of my search I found the famous movie and stage actors who’ve played Henry (a.k.a. Prince Hal, Harry of England, Hank Cinq, etc.), and their performances vary and evoke different emotions. Let’s view these variations.
In Anonymous, we get only the last 95 words of the speech, so that’s all we’ll look at from the other videos. But before we screen these performances, here’re the 95 words that form the ending of the “St. Crispin’s Day Speech”:
This story shall the good man...(Read Full Article)
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