tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11740192.post6248241483727711844..comments2023-10-19T05:46:55.967-05:00Comments on Free Flow: Just stuffA Girl From Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02852542698140658490noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11740192.post-72003350510656471492008-07-09T12:20:00.000-05:002008-07-09T12:20:00.000-05:00I saw Merry on Sunday (I was doing an open house i...I saw Merry on Sunday (I was doing an open house in the area and she invited me for dinner). I mentioned the 25 minute plays and she told me about the Crispin speech and then, she played the video. I really enjoyed it very much.A Girl From Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02852542698140658490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11740192.post-57395678741519855302008-07-08T22:07:00.000-05:002008-07-08T22:07:00.000-05:00I absolutely love Henry V. I don't know how you c...I absolutely love Henry V. I don't know how you could ever condense it into 25 minutes. There is so much to it. You could not give up the Crispin Day speech. And there is the most beautiful, tender love scene in the end of the play, when Henry asks French Katharine if she could come to love him. "Take me, take a soldier, take a king..." she has trouble with her French. He would happily hear her say she would love him with her French heart in her broken English. She still cannot tell him. He asks her in so many ways if she could love him. "I cannot tell" she says. And he responds "Can any of you neighbors tell me Kate?" The timing is, in that wonderful Shakespeare way, perfect, and you laugh out loud the moment he says it. You should check out the Kenneth Brannagh/Emma Thompson Henry V, done before their bitter breakup. To me, it is magical, and the music is stunning.<BR/><BR/>I love ShakespeareSunWolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16838964085552765336noreply@blogger.com