Famous Victories of Henry V: Scene 9 FV: Scene 9 Director Peter Cockett Author of Annotations Peter Cockett Video Director Holger Schott Syme Video Compiler Peter Cockett Production Company Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men Project Conversion and Remediation LEMDO Team Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada McMaster University Poculi Ludique Societas University of Waterloo University of Toronto Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies University of Victoria Friends of the ISE

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The reformed prince newly crowned as king demonstrates in this scene his commitment to a life of virtue and martial endeavor against the kingdom of France. The scene is structured around three comic reversals: for his old companions, for the proud archbishop of Bruges, and for the fearful Lord Chief Justice. In the first two, the proud are met with a fall and in the last the righteous man is rewarded. The SQM company worked to enhance the audience’s delight in these reversals of fortune, increasing their anticipation of the turnaround by committing to the bragging of the proud and the fear of the Lord Chief Justice. We felt this scene was key in establishing Henry V as the model of the English hero king. Paul Hopkins (Prince Henry) also managed to incorporate some of the playfulness of his wayward prince into his dealings with the Lord Chief Justice, an element of his character that became more apparent in later scenes and made the king both noble and entertaining. I feel Hopkins’s charismatic performance of Henry captured the way this story of the reformed monarch appealed to the English people.

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