Shakespeare

What Winning Leaves Behind

Crown 7, The Prisoners and the Wooing

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In the dawn mist armoured knights sit on their horses with lances raised.
Illustration by John Gilbert, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers, The Plays of Shakespeare, ed. Howard Staunton, Routledge, 1858-64Original

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Morning came at Agincourt. The French knights mounted, talking as if the day would be over quickly. The English soldiers stood in a wet field.

The fighting was decided in half a day. Knights crowded into narrow ground and blocked one another. Armour heavy with rain caught their feet in the mud. Arrows from the long bows came down on top of them.

A man off his horse did not get up again. English soldiers took hold of them and sent them to the rear. Prisoners piled up quickly.

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