henry v

     

This king's corpse is carried on stage in the first scene of "Henry VI, Part I"

Trivia about henry v

  • Once more, this Lancastrian breached his greatest success around 1415
  • In 3rd play in which he appears, he becomes king & gets a girl, but she can't speak English
  • The eldest son of Henry IV became king in 1413
  • Laurence Olivier reigned as this warrior king in 1945; Kenneth Branagh took the throne in 1989
  • Victory at Agincourt in 1415 earned this king a visit from the Holy Roman Emperor
  • This king of England beat the odds to trounce the French in the 1415 Battle of Agincourt
  • In 1415 he won the Battle of Agincourt against overwhelming odds
  • "O for a muse of fire..."
  • "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead"
  • 1989: Kenneth Branagh
  • "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; or close the wall up with our English dead!"
  • Owen Tudor went once more unto the breach & married the widow of this English king
  • By the end of the play, Prince Henry, then known as Hal, has become this title character of another play
  • As depicted here, this English king & Shakespeare hero did some hands-on fighting at the Battle of Agincourt
  • "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother"
  • "Once more unto the breach, but first allow me to eat this peach"
  • "Once more unto the breach, once more! (aside) Why did we not just use the door?"
  • Sir William Walton wrote the music for this 1944 Laurence Olivier Shakespearean film that served as a patriotic boost
  • Pistol calls his wife "my duck" as he kisses her & goes off to war in France in this Shakespeare history play
  • Act IV, Scene 1 of this play takes place in the English camp at Agincourt

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