As per usual, Shakespeare's work is brilliance.

I'm not usually a big fan of Shakespeare, but this book was a treat. The climax of it was more action-packed that I'm used to with these plays, the characters were individual and well-developed, and I found the world interesting.

The strongest aspect of the play was something I love to see in books. It's when all the characters are likeable or unlikeable to the same extent, and your interpretation of them depends only on your personality as the reader.

4 years later, and I stand by my 3.

as much as learning the historical context behind shakespeare’s plays is so valuable and interesting, it wasnt enough to fully engage me this time. maybe if i were more british. might change when i see it performed tho!

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'We few. We happy few. We band of brothers.'

My favourite speech of all time, the Saint Crispin's Day speech, is in this play, and it truly is wonderful. The scenes with King Henry and his numerous inspiring and goosebumps incurring talks were definitely the highlight of this Shakespearian original.

The period of history is a portion of The Hundred Year War between the French and English that includes the Battle of Agincourt. This is obviously a part of history I am very interested in, and I loved the archaic language that accompanies the medieval atmosphere.

I think that whilst this play gives rise to some of the best moments in Shakespeare, I'd say that on the whole the cast was not as interesting as say Othello, Macbeth or Richard III. But, despite this, the concept is awesome and there is so much to linger and mould over.

'Once more unto the breach, dear friends'

If you enjoy Shakespeare I would definitely read this! I plan on watching the film adaptation in which Kenneth Branagh stars as the king himself very soon. I prefer Macbeth on the whole, but the scenes that include the main character can match up to any scene in Macbeth, in my opinion anyway.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more

I'm really bad at committing with required readings and I struggled a lot (ONE MONTH!!!!!) reading this history play so it ended up being just an okay reading for me . To be honest, I'd never have read it if it hadn't been a compulsory read for Medieval and Renaissance English Literature so I forced myself to finish it. I hope I'll find other Shakespeare's plays more interesting than this one. However, I liked this annotated version and the scene to scene in-depth analysis at the end.