Send me your prisoners with the speediest means, He durst as well have met the devil aloneДЄrt thou not ashamed? But, sirrah, henceforth Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him

In changing hardiment with great GlendowerвЂ¦ Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took

Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds, He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,Д«ut by the chance of war to prove that true Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost No, on the barren mountains let him starve ДЇor I shall never hold that man my friend When they have lost and forfeited themselves? Shall we but treason? and indent with fears, That we at our own charge shall ransom straight HereвЂ™s how it goes down in Act I, Scene 3 (condensed slightly for length): The older Henry believes Mortimer is secretly in league with the Welsh, and demands young Hotspur give him the prisoners at once. After putting down an army of Scottish rebels, Hotspur has taken prisoners, and wonвЂ™t transfer them to the crown unless Henry IV ransoms his relative, Mortimer, from the Welsh rebel Owen Glendower. Henry IV confronts Hotspur over Scottish prisonersД«oth The King and Henry IV, Part 1 begin with a showdown between our heroвЂ™s royal father and the future outlaw Harry вЂњHotspurвЂќ Percy. (All quotations from the plays courtesy the Open Source Shakespeare project.) How does it compare to the original? WeвЂ™ve taken excerpts from a few scenes that directly line up with ShakespeareвЂ™s own, to see. Instead of iambic pentameter, characters in The King speak in what we might call Game of Thrones English, a blend of short staccato sentences, stentorian pronouncements, a few old-timey phrasings, and frequent cursing. TimothГ©e ChalametвЂ™s Hal is now a noble pacifist who disdains war and imperialism, which is kind of like turning Romeo into an incel. Besides the language, theyвЂ™ve also changed the fates of a few supporting players, and given the story new themes. There the change in scenery freed filmmakers from the burden of direct adaptation in keeping so much the same, the people behind The King have made each departure feel even more glaring.

Edgerton and MichГґd arenвЂ™t the first to rewrite Shakespeare - millennials will recall 10 Things I Hate About You kicked off a wave of adaptations that brought Shakespearean plots to American high schools, efforts that were generally more successful with comedies ( SheвЂ™s the Man) than tragedies ( O). For their Henry V film The King, currently streaming on Netflix, the pair borrowed most of the plot, characters, and big moments from ShakespeareвЂ™s trio of plays about the monarch, but chose to jettison the BardвЂ™s famous verse in favor of dialogue of their own creation. Photo: Left: Netflix/Right: ITV/ShutterstockДЇrustrated writers in search of more confidence would do well to study the example of Joel Edgerton and David MichГґd. TimothГ©e Chalamet in The King and Laurence Olivier in Henry V.

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