Literature and Media - Shakespeare Review

Who would you select to rally your troops before a battle with the French?

• King Henry V

• Odysseus

• Achilles

• Aeneas

What speech is given by King Henry V before the Battle of Agincourt?

• Once More Unto the Breach

• To Imitate the Sun

• Ascension of King Henry V

• St Crispin's Day Speech

What is the sequel to Henry IV?

• Henry V

• Henriad

• Henry VIII

• Macbeth

In 'Once more unto the breach', what is King Henry trying to convince his soldiers to do?

• Jump into the castle moat

• Enlist into his army again

• Run back into battle

• Fall back

In Henry IV, what speech does the young prince give that suggests he will surprise everyone?

• Once More Unto the Breach

• To Imitate the Sun

• St Crispin's Day

• And Juliet is the Sun

What is the collective name for the plays written about Kings Henry IV and Henry V?

• Illiad

• Henriad

• Odyssey

• Ascension

'If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work'

comes from which speech?

• At Crispin's Day

• To Imitate the Sun

• Once More Unto the Breach

• Ascension of King Henry V

Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more,

• Or close the wall up with our English dead!

• But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger

• Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it

• Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height!

I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humour of your idleness.

• By breaking through the foul and ugly mistsOf vapours that did seem to strangle him.

• My reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.

• And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.

• Yet herein will I imitate the sun

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work;

• By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.

• But when they seldom come, they wished-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.

• By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men’s hopes

• I’ll so offend to make offence a skill, Redeeming time when men think least I will.