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Henry V

William Shakespeare

Form
Form Play
Year
Year 1600
Pages
Pages 120

An empty stage, and a voice apologising for it: can this wooden O hold the vasty fields of France? The apology is the trick, because Shakespeare then hands the whole war over to your imagination, which obligingly builds it larger than any army he could have marched across a platform of boards.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
Henry V, William Shakespeare

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