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Merging the characters of the manservant and the King's messenger converts the monarch from a protector to a tyrant who will let his citizens suffer to increase their awe and dependence. The change derives from a genuine insight: as Pintilie notes in the program, the play is full of instances of people being spied upon, or believing that they are. Perhaps it takes an East European, schooled in the ways of the surveillance state, to grasp the political implications of that conventional element of farce. But for spectators in the American Midwest, the climactic revelation is perceptibly, persuasively...
...protocol weighed heavily on the mind of Canada's new Prime Minister, John Turner, 55, as he sped home from a whirlwind visit to London. He had gone there to see Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and to ask Queen Elizabeth II, who is also Canada's Constitutional Monarch, to postpone a two-week tour of Ontario, Manitoba and New Brunswick that was scheduled to begin last week. The Queen's assent allowed Turner to make a much awaited announcement: Canadians will go to the polls on Sept. 4.* The federal election was needed, he said, to bring...
MARVEL at the spectacle of soldiery and swordsmanship in the decisive battle of Agincourt! THRILL as the victorious monarch woos and wins the fair Katharine - in two languages! It is all here, and more (including some of the loveliest wordplay in English or French). No wonder the play's Chorus poor-mouths the restrictions of the stage and the absence of "things/ Which cannot in their huge and proper life/ Be here presented." And no wonder that the definitive Henry V is Laurence Olivier's 1945 film version...
...French and Spanish Languages Juan Marichal notes that the abortive coup underscored the link between the crown and the new democracy. "The people in the army who wanted to turn back the clock knew that they couldn't do it without killing the king." He adds that the monarch's response made clear that "loyalty to him is loyalty to the constitution...
This education has been the key to the monarch's leverage on the naval forces, observers say. "It matters that this is a military man," says Karl. "He has been able to deal with the right-wing tendencies of the military without degrading the military as an institution." The King sure said of his officers. "I knew them. I used to take showers with them...