St. Crispin's Day
Americannoun
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He typically saved the stirring rhetoric for the last few paragraphs of a chapter, in the form of mini St. Crispin's Day speeches, fanfare for his noble, pragmatic mission:
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2023
He developed a photographic memory, reciting playbooks and other monologues, including William Shakespeare’s St. Crispin’s Day Speech and Al Pacino’s team address in “Any Given Sunday.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022
Henry V’s St. Crispin’s Day speech is perhaps one of the most famous monologues in all of Shakespeare, in which the titular king rouses his unlikely force to eventually triumph over a superior enemy.
From The Verge • May 11, 2022
And his crowd-rousing St. Crispin’s Day Speech comes across as brutally militaristic.
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2016
The capture of Monterey inspired the American poet, Charles F. Hoffman, to a song modelled after the famous St. Crispin's Day speech in Shakespeare's "King Henry V."
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
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