Saturday, March 13, 2010

Shakespeare's Henry V, performance Saturday, August 22.

Dear English Class Scholars,David Melville

This Saturday at Barnsdall Park in Hollywood the Independent Shakespeare Company will be performing Henry V. We have been studying mostly the comedies and the major tragedies but this play is one of the histories. It is perhaps one of the more renowned of these semihistorical dramas, containing the famous line "Once more into the breach my friends", "St. Crispin's Day" the most rousing of all battlefield exhortations, and the insightful scene -- re-enacted in an episode of StarTrek -- of the king in disguise on the eve of battle, sounding out his men.

My family is going. Anyone else like to come?

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