{"id":4564,"date":"2011-10-25T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2011-10-25T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:50:08","slug":"st-crispins-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4564","title":{"rendered":"St. Crispin's Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

This call to celebrate a literary holiday in St. Crispin’s Day seems jaded<\/a>, but maybe I am ignorant of King Henry V true character and the context of his war with France. I like this holiday idea though. Today, friends, is St. Crispin’s day. From Shakespeare’s Henry V:<\/i><\/p>\n

“He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,\u2028
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Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,\u2028
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And rouse him at the name of Crispian.\u2028
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He that shall live this day, and see old age,\u2028
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Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,\u2028
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And say \u2018To-morrow is Saint Crispian:\u2019
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\u2028Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.\u2028
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And say \u2018These wounds I had on Crispin\u2019s day.”<\/p>\n

Guy Patrick Cunningham writes, “In Henry V<\/i>, Shakespeare offers us an opportunity to see the horror that results from pursuing winning only for its own sake. This is why St. Crispin\u2019s Day ought to belong to Shakespeare\u2019s play, and not the historical Henry\u2019s battle. Because by reading, rereading, or simply thinking about the play, we are reminded that there is often a difference between the achievements that usually get remembered and the achievements that actually make people\u2019s lives better.”<\/p>\n

Here’s a summary of the Battle of Agincourt<\/a>, which Henry won on October 25, 1415.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This call to celebrate a literary holiday in St. Crispin’s Day seems jaded, but maybe I am ignorant of King Henry V true character and the context of his war with France. I like this holiday idea though. Today, friends, is St. Crispin’s day. From Shakespeare’s Henry V: “He that outlives this day, and comes … Continue reading St. Crispin's Day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}