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Sounds like a real well-rounded guy there, who knows what Teh Gay looks like! Also, "accountancy department." STEYN: I mean, he looks like some guy from the accountancy department. It was Fox News idiot Mark Steyn, and he said there is a new #scandal brewing after Cory Booker's exit from the race race, as all the major players in tonight's debate (yes there is a debate, that is the point of this post) are white people, except HAW HAW, said Mark Steyn, followed by a "Pocahontas" joke about Elizabeth Warren, and also HAW HAW, said Mark Steyn, is Elizabeth Warren faking being a lady too? Is Pete Buttigieg faking being Teh Gay? ~I didn't know Wonkette was still around, but apparently it is: But, if that's not enough, you can find all the stories we didn't get to right here at SteynOnline in the latest edition of Laura's Links. We surveyed the scene from impeachment to Iran. You can find a few moments from my Tuesday guest-hosting stint here. And if three hours of me aren't enough I'll be back in two shakes of a lamb's tail north of the border at 5pm Eastern with Toronto's John Oakley.
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You can dial us up either via the iHeart Radio app or on one of over 600 Rush affiliate stations across the fruited plain - such as our old friends at WNTK New Hampshire, where you can listen to the full show from anywhere on the planet right here. Alas, today, Wednesday, yours truly will be back on the air for a final three hours of substitute-host-level Excellence In Broadcasting on America's Number One radio show starting at 12 noon Eastern/9am Pacific. The biggest surprise is when Williams punches the king in the face and gets a big brotherly hug.Yes, yes, I know I've been promising every day that Rush will be back the very next day, but I'm 99 per cent certain - okay, 9.9 per cent certain - that he will be here live on Thursday. The one scene which really works is when Henry reads out the list of the dead and the English realize they have actually won the battle against all the odds. Oliver Ford Davies’s Chorus is schoolmasterly dull and Jennifer Kirby as the French Princess overdoes her English lesson.
The grim warning to the citizens of Harfleur, as to what will happen to them, if they do not surrender, is also addressed to the audience, and thus both speeches lose their impact. The exhortation, Once more unto the breach, is directed directly at the Barbican audience who, needlessly to say, remains seated.
Hassell always is what Henry says he is – just a man like anybody else. There is no charisma, no authority, and no depth to the characterisation. The great soldier, the great statesman, is not visible. The irony is that the king is played by Alex Hassell who played the king’s younger self, Prince Hal, so well in Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. The major weakness of Gregory Doran’s production is that you never believe you are watching King Henry. It is also more understandable when you appreciate the prisoners outnumbered the English soldiers and the French were liable to renew their attack. The ruthless action always shocks but it is a knee-jerk reaction to the killing of all the luggage boys. The king, once thought of as “the mirror of all Christian kings” is today much more likely to be considered a war criminal on account of his killing all the French prisoners. Kenneth Branagah’s 1989 film and Nicolas Hytner’s 2003 production for the National Theatre with Adrian Lister, performed respectively at the time of the Falklands War and the invasion of Iraq, have followed suit, taking their cue from the sentiments expressed by soldier Williams: “There are few that die well in battle.” John Barton and Trevor Nunn rethought the play as an anti-war tract in 1966 and it was acted by Ian Holm and the RSC as if it were Mother Courage. Shakespeare’s most jingoistic play has been regularly revived to boost morale in times of war: notably in 1805, the year of Trafalgar, in 1815, the year of Waterloo and in 1945 to coincide with D-Day in World War 2. The victory was attributed to King Henry V, who was 29, and his longbowmen who could shoot eight arrows a minute The French, who vastly outnumbered the English, were massacred. The Battle of Agincourt was fought 600 years ago on 25 October, 1415. Robert Tanitch reviews the RSC’s Henry V at Barbican, London EC2