Henry V Act III,.1
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... or of a play telling his actors how to perform. Therefore his 'great speech' is not, as it is often taken to be, simply the inspiring call to action of a great soldier, but an elaborate rhetorical device. It is the performance of an act deliberately designed to encourage his soldiers to fight, to the death if necessary, 'Or close up the wall with our English dead!'
In the build up to the battle, Henry speaks to his soldiers not as subservients b ...
