Shakespeare's Henry V (1990, Michael Bogdanov) pt 6 of 17

Shakespeare's "King Henry V" from "The War of the Roses" (English Shakespeare Company, UK, 1990) is a direct filming, from the stage, of Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington's 7-play sequence based on Shakespeare's history plays.

Sion Probert as Fluellen,
John Dougall as Nym,
John Tramper as boy
Paul Brenner as Pistol,
Michael Caine as MacMorris
Michael Fenner as Gower
Colin Farrell as Bardolph (actor born 1938)

Director Michael Bogdanov


Notes by Richard Grant White (W.) and Edward Everett Hale:

4. case = a box, half a dozen, referring to cases in which knives, spoons, etc., were kept. W.

5. plain-song = a simple melody or theme.

8. Knocks go and come, etc. Pistol's rhymes are quoted from some lost ballad or ballads. The Boy's speech, line 18, may be so likewise; but more probably it is the fruit of his own ready, saucy wit. W.

20. preach. Fluellen's dialect is worth study. It will be observed that it consists almost entirely in substituting voiceless consonants for voiced at the beginning of a word, as p for b, as here, / for v, etc.

21. cullious — boobies, gulls. W.

22. mould = earth : to ordinary men.
25. bawcock = beau coeq, IV, i, 44.
47. carry coals = perform the meanest services. W.

56. mines: the means of approaching and sometimes destroying the enemies' fortification.

74. Fluellen, though a thoroughly brave man, was a little pedantic. See just below, 11. 79, 82, 97.

88. Macmorris's dialect is only slightly indicated by substituting sh for s. Jamy, on tbe other hand, does just the opposite, as do Sir Walter Scott's Highlanders. He has also one or two other northern peculiarities, as IwiUi for both.

122. What . . . nation ? Macmorris means that there is no question of different nations in the army.

135. A. This vowel is the Scotch exclamation aw t It had that pronunciation very commonly in S.'s day. W.

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[claireday]

i worked with michael once & i would love to contact him now i live in the uk....anyone?

[redredshoes]

These are wonderful, thank you so much for putting them up!