What’s
he?
-Duke of Orleans
Setting – The French camp near Agincourt
Present – The Constable of France, the Lord
Rambures, Orleans, and others.
King Henry The Fifth Act
III, scene vii Line 101
Tonight, a short line and a short post. Clearly, it isn’t
much of a line to work with. I do think it’s interesting that we’re on our
fourth day in a row of Henry plays, but today’s line is a bit a bit, well,
there’s just not much to it. What’s he? I think the Duke is
simply saying ‘who?’ The ‘who’ he’s referring to is the Dauphin. No, not the
dolphin, the Dauphin. The Dauphin is the title of whoever is next in line for
the throne of France. I don’t know if it has any relation from a semantics
standpoint to the word dolphin, but I doubt it.
We knew going in to it there’d be days like this, so we’ll
just take the day, and the line and be done.
No, no! I said Dauphin, not dolphin.
1 comment:
I really love this line.
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