Henry IV, V, & VI

Thinks he's a drunken and whoring moron

Prince Hal

Thinks he's Awesome!

Thinks he's a moron

Basically, they fight to see who's a bigger moran and Hal actually wins the battle for his father, proving that 2001, a Space Odyssey, IS the greatest movie ever!

England

France

War of the Roses

Margaret

William de la Pole

Bicker, Bicker, Bicker, Bicker, Bicker

Evidence of Collaboration

Weak Writing

Rhyming Couplets

Low Art

Staged Violence

Most Battles (on stage) thus far

Largest Cast (HVI, p2)

Soliloquy (Longest in History)

William Shakespeare

Jack Cade & his Pirates!

Part 1

Somerset

York

Battle of Shrewsbury

• Henry V Dies in his prime.
• Henry VI (boy king) takes riegn.
• War of the Roses (old dudes trying to run country)
• Joan of Arc leads France and gains freedom.
• Richard Plantagenet kills Joan.
• Henry Marries Margaret.

Hotspur

Falstaff

Part 2

Henry IV

Henry VI

• Lots more bickering and rebellion.
• Everyone wants to be king.

and / or

Part 2

Part 3

Clifford!

• Henry gives Throne to York.
• Margaret, Edward (prince) and Clifford try to take it back.
• Lots of bloody war.
• Henry VIish wins back the throne.
• Lots more bloody war.
• Finally Richard III stabs Henry VI and takes the throne for York.

• Hotspur Dies.
• Henry IV Dies.
• Henry (Hal) V takes crown.
• Henry IV comes back to life (Mad Zombie Action)
• Henry V convinces Henry IV (if you haven't figured it out yet, that's his dad) that he is all good at running England.
• Hal disses Falstaff.

Iraq War Invasion?

The 2003 Royal National Theatre produced a modern version comparing Henry V to Bush Jr. and Henry IV as Bush Sr. The invasion of France by England and the lifestyle of both Henry's and Bush's do have similar tones, so if it helps to understand this section of history, go for it!

Joan of Arc

Henry V

St. Crispin's Day Speech

This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.

He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,

Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,

And rouse him at the name of Crispian.

He that shall live this day, and see old age,

Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,

And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'

Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,

And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'

Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,

But he'll remember, with advantages,

What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,

Familiar in his mouth as household words-

Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,

Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-

Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.

This story shall the good man teach his son;

And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,

From this day to the ending of the world,

But we in it shall be remembered-

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

For he to-day that sheds his blood with me

Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,

This day shall gentle his condition;

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed

Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,

And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks

That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.