It was on the latter that he met his wife Sarah-Jane Potts - this
Henry V's 'fair Katherine' - although according to Joseph there was 'no twinkle of us being a couple' during filming.
But the opening scene of "
Henry V" can leave no doubt in the audience's mind about the cynicism of that blessing, nor can the king delude himself that God is compelled to fight on his side.
The sense that it was one remained as intermittent as it had been in
Henry V's time.
The death of
Henry V is thus bound up with the English fear of foreign subversion, embodied by the French practice of witchcraft--a power symbolising demonic darkness, the unfamiliar, and the feminine.
The secondhand account of his death from
Henry V clarifies the ultimate seriousness which likely underlies Falstaff's joking in this scene.
Like
Henry V leading his troops into battle, these leaders focus relentlessly on the heart of the mission.
Instead of ignoring New Historicism, Battenhouse could have allied himself with it, offering a critique of political idealism (as he does in his comments on
Henry V) from a distinctly Augustinian perspective and thereby using it also to critique the materialist perspective that New Historicists explicitly endorsed.
This study of the struggles of
Henry V and his son, Henry VI, to establish their rule in northern France follows Dr Barker's earlier book on
Henry V's great victory at Agincourt.
Ian Mortimer is the author of 1415:
Henry V's Year of Glory (Bodley Head, 2009).
Following Hal's meeting with the Lord Chief Justice in 5.2, Shine went directly to a shortened 5.3, where Falstaff, having apparently been keenly rewarded for his "exploits" at Shrewsbury--wearing brave new liveries and a golden cape--hears of the old king's death, and then to the final, and very painful moments of the play, where at
Henry V's entrance Richard Ziman played an utterly shattered Falstaff who wept at Hal's "I know thee not, old man.
These issues are taken further in the second part of Henderson's text, 'Media Crossings', in her discussion of The Taming of the Shrew and
Henry V.
Modern war movies began suggesting that soldiers fight and die for their buddies with the 1989 release of Kenneth Branagh's
Henry V (BBC).