Shakespeare's Henry V (1990, Michael Bogdanov) pt 4 of 17 Video

Shakespeare's "King Henry V" from "The War of the Roses" (English Shakespeare Company, UK, 1990) is a direct filming, from the stage, of Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington's 7-play sequence based on Shakespeare's history plays.

Chorus - Barry Stanton
Henry Prince of Wales - Michael Pennington
Paul Brenner as Pistol,
Colin Farrell as Bardolph
John Dougall as Nym
June Watson as Mistress Quickly
Ian Burford - Exeter
Philip Rees as Sir Thomas Grey
Hugh Sullivan - Canterbury
Ben Bazell - Westmoreland

Director Michael Bogdanov

Commentary By Edward Everett Hale:

This is one of the humorous or character scenes that the Elizabethan drama sandwiched in amongst the poetry and rhetoric. Bardolph and Pistol are reminiscences of Henry IV, remnants of the swaggering crew of Falstaff. Nym comes from the Merry Wives. They serve Shakespeare's purpose only indirectly. For the exhibition of British courage and achievement he creates men of a different stamp, Fluellen and Gower, Macmorris and Jamy, Williams and Bates. Pistol is the only one of the swaggerers who remains through the play: Bardolph is hanged for robbing a church, and Nyra is, also, though for some reason that we do not hear.