Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof! Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean. Like the brass cannon let the brow o’erwhelm it In peace there’s nothing so becomes a manīut when the blast of war blows in our ears,ĭisguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage Or close the wall up with our English dead. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more Read Shakespeare’s ‘ Once more unto the breach, dear friends’ speech from Henry V below, along with a modern English translation: Spoken by Henry, Act 3 Scene 1 Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.He also tells his troops to channel their inner tigers (seriously) and declares that, if they fight with everything they've got, warfare will make them noble-no matter which way it ends. King Henry delivers a famous speech to his troops as he urges them on into a gap (breach). They've just blown up some of the French fortifications. The scene opens in the middle of the siege of Harfleur. What his troops need is a rousing speech. A change in the whole let's attack France thing? Now you're just talking crazy. Henry quickly figures this out and knows what his troops need. Taking over a kingdom that's fighting tooth and nail to stop you is no piece of cake. He's ready to invade France and take the crown, loophole or no (although the loophole does conveniently give him an excuse). Henry supposedly has a legal right to rule France because his great-great-grandmother (Isabel) was the daughter of the French King Phillip IV.īut Henry doesn't really need convincing. In other words, if a king had a daughter, she couldn't inherit the throne and her sons and grandsons couldn't inherit it either. We should tell you that there's a loophole in Salic law that prevented men from inheriting the crown through a female line. It'll require a whole lot of fighting and well-funded troops, but Henry figures, well, why not? But then he decides to invade France and make a claim to the French crown, too. Why is it that kings can never be happy with just one kingdom? Take Henry V. The game's afoot:Ĭry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!' (3.1.1-34) I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, That you are worth your breeding which I doubt not įor there is none of you so mean and base, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.Īnd teach them how to war. Have in these parts from morn till even foughtĪnd sheathed their swords for lack of argument: Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Like the brass cannon let the brow o'erwhelm it In peace there's nothing so becomes a manīut when the blast of war blows in our ears,ĭisguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage
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