Word: harfleur
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...shape give us the rigging and bow of a rolling and creaking ship. The instant the words proceed to the king's 'Once more unto the breach, dear friends,' the wooden structures turn into a quartet of ladders to enable the soldiers to scale the wall of Harfleur...
...siege of Harfleur, Henry roars at assembled elders of the town: I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur Till in her ashes she lie buried. The gates of mercy shall be all shut up, And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart, In liberty of bloody hand shall range With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass Your fresh fair virgins and your flow'ring infants...
...text into twenty-one chunks. At the outset of each, one person strikes the claves and, in the manner of Brecht's "epic theatre," declaims a caption that purports to distill the ideological essence of the scene to follow. Thus we hear, for instance: "Scene 7: Siege of Harfleur; Propaganda of the Machine; The People Follow"; "Scene 11: Winter Continues; Discourses on War and Death; The Army Marches"; "Scene 15: Economic Lesson on the Battlefield"; "Scene 17: Exeter Tells the Lie of Noble Death...
...western or two. He was not imaginative, and perhaps this was just as well; unlike his friend George Patton, he never developed fantasies of being a reincarnation of one of Alexander the Great's captains. Nor could he speak, as Douglas MacArthur could, like Henry V before Harfleur. Yet the conclusion is inevitable that the war was too serious to be left to anyone but this general...
...desk. It is a pretty harmless foible, but if this were known, what would it do to the "Company Image"? Two extraverted corporate types are rivals for his ballpoint-pen scepter, but although the telephone company can command more men than Henry V could put in the field at Harfleur, this is a conflict of clowns rather than kings. As in Shakespeare's day, the faithful friend-Mercutio, Horatio or Mark Antony-is in short supply, but Polonius, prototype of the company man, seems to have proliferated...