Emphasis Preaching Journal

There is an incredible intimacy in shared suffering. One of the most powerful scenes in English literature is the Saint Crispin's Day speech delivered by Henry before the Battle of Agincourt in Shake-speare's Henry V. Though Shakespeare wrote almost 200 years after the battle itself (1415), he possessed a keen sense of the English appreciation for the event. Henry had already led his soldiers across northwestern France capturing Calais and several other cities claimed by the English.