Shakespeare's Kings by John Julius Norwich

Author:John Julius Norwich
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Non Fiction
ISBN: 9780670863198
Publisher: London : Viking, 1999.
Published: 2001-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

O God of Battles, steel my soldiers' hearts

and this immediately leads us back to that moral burden that the House of Lancaster could never entirely shake off - the guilt that Henry will always feel for his father's usurpation of the throne.

'The sun doth gild our armour; up, my lords!' With this magical line, and more vainglorious speeches from the French side, the dramatic representation of the battle effectively begins. The scene then changes to the English camp, and leads to the great St Crispin's Day speech that, sixty years ago, every English schoolboy had sooner or later to learn by heart: the King's indignant retort to the Earl of Westmorland's surely comprehensible wish that

we now had here

But one ten thousand of those men in England

That do no work today!

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