Day Twenty-One

Henry VI, Part 1

4.7

SYNOPSIS

The scene opens with Talbot and a servant discussing John’s death. The body of his son is brought to him, and he cries over it before he dies...presumably of grief. Charles and his crew, including Joan show up on the scene and express relief the Talbots were never backed-up—they proceed to talk shit about the Talbots. Lucy enters to try and get an English body count, then he laments all the English deaths while Joan teases him about, then encourages Dauphin to send Lucy on his way out of boredom.

IMPRESSIONS

Oh, Talbot, and his ceaseless lamentations. The Icarus metaphor becomes explicitly spelled out again...:

Talbot

And in that sea of blood my bod did drench

His overmounting spirit; and there died

My Icarus, my blossom, in his pride.

It’s funny/interesting the opposite feelings Talbot had toward leaving the field of battle: Falstaff was a coward; Talbot and John debated which of the two should split. Hypocrites.

Man, this doesn’t make sense...why not split this scene into multiple scenes and keep the scenes of Talbot and John arguing about leaving the field of battle as one scene instead of three? After Talbot dies mourning his dead son, we move to the French talking shit about Talbot and son, Joan gets a particularly good dig in, todays...

LINE OF THE DAY

Joan

Once I encount’red him, and thus I said:

“Thou maiden youth, be vanquish’d by a maid!”

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