Henry V

Stream it nowDavid Michôd’s The King, from 2019, is an entertaining riff on Shakespeare’s Henriad, with everyone’s Tiger Beat crush Timothée Chalamet as the prince who will become Henry V, if only he can stop partying and carousing.

Just look to “Henry V,” in which Shakespeare compares a well-run kingdom to a beehive.

Kenneth Branagh portrayed Henry V in the 1989 film adaptation, which he directed as well.

Would such shallowness be tolerated in a film about the Battle of Agincourt, immortalized by Shakespeare in Henry V?

He spent his first 18 years as King in English captivity after becoming a hostage of Henry IV of England, and later Henry V.

Yet there was also Henry V's victory at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, perhaps the dynasty's high spot.

Henry V by Laurence Olivier Watch the regal actor discover the medium.

He abused the confidence and liberality of the emperor, Henry V, by raising a conspiracy, for which he was imprisoned.

He reminds me a little of Henry V. before the battle of Agincourt.

Up to the time of Henry V. the embalmed bodies and not the effigies were displayed upon the funeral car.

Henry V. was in a similar strait before Agincourt, but in this case victory in the field extricated him from danger.

If Henry V. had lived to old age, nothing would ever have been heard of the pretensions of the house of York.