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Tom Hiddleston Performs Henry V Monologue on Hoppus on Music

I thought the BBC was just doing Henry IV pt 1&2 with Hiddleston, but they’re also doing Henry V? He’s in good company…

(Olivier)

(Branagh)

Ugh, the clip quality for both of these is pretty terrible, but I couldn’t resist. Henry V is my favourite Shakespeare play, pretty much. (Like, to the extent that I’m approaching Avengers levels of excitement about this version ;)

This isn’t my favourite speech or scene (that’s probably the scene where Henry’s disguised himself and ends up in an argument with some of his soldiers:

“But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day, and cry all, “We died at such a place,” some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything, when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it, who to disobey were against all proportion of subjection.”

…always gives me chills.)

(via tokidokifish)