St. Crispin’s Day

October 25 is St. Crispin’s Day and every lover of Shakespeare should either read the St. Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V or watch a performance of it. If you have a Shakespeare Club or a class, by all means do both. I recommend watching one or two fantastic performances of the speech (some of my favorites are below). You can then have the students read either the full speech together or a portion you select. Finally, ask for volunteers who might want to perform the speech themselves.

Here is the speech from the Poetry Society.

Here is an article about the speech and St. Crispin’s Day by Juliana Avery for the Folger Shakespeare Library.

And here are some of my favorite clips of the speech.