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The text does not clearly indicate whether the battle was staged or not. The words The Battle might have been added by the print compositors for the sake of future readers. It does seem unlikely, however, that the Queen’s Men would have missed this opportunity for spectacle. Even the clown Tarlton was an avid swordsman, reaching the rank of Master of Fence (Thomson n.p.). The SQM company working with fight director Daniel Levinson developed a battle sequence that displayed our English king’s valor in fighting three French soldiers single-handedly and armed at one point only with a small shield. We also depicted the death of the Duke of York and re-introduced Derrick, who reappears soon after (having been absent from the play for several scenes). When performing in a bar setting, Paul Hopkins (Henry V) developed a piece of business where he paused in battle to take a drink of beer from what appeared to be an audience member’s glass. (It had in fact been planted by the actor.) Audiences loved this moment, enhancing what I felt was the egalitarian relationship between actors and audience in the SQM productions.

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