St Crispin's Day Speech
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St Crispin's Day Speech
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The St Crispin's Day speech is a part of William Shakespeare's history play Henry V, Act IV Scene iii(3) 18–67. On the eve of the Battle of Agincourt, which fell on Saint Crispin's Day, Henry V urges his men, who were vastly outnumbered by the French, to imagine the glory and immortality that will be theirs if they are victorious. The speech has been famously portrayed by Laurence Olivier to raise British spirits during the Second World War, and by Kenneth Branagh in the 1989 film Henry V; it ma
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Speech from the Shakespeare play Henry V
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Crispin%27s_Day_Speech
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2013-04-05T06:00:12Z
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2024-08-31T11:21:51Z
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