{"id":48441,"date":"2016-01-30T21:31:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T21:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48441"},"modified":"2016-03-16T17:58:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T17:58:23","slug":"games-heroic-and-tragic-1-gaming-st-crispins-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48441","title":{"rendered":"Games heroic and tragic:  gaming St Crispin&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; busy tidying away six or more posts before Spring Break delivers my college-age son to me &#8212; here&#8217;s one ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>We observe Shakespeare gaming &#8212; staging &#8212; playing &#8212; the <strong>Battle of Agincourt<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A-yZNMWFqvM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>A play, a game, a gamble.  The odds are &#8220;fearful&#8221;..<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>WESTMORELAND<\/strong><br \/>\nOf fighting men they have full three score thousand.<br \/>\n<strong>EXETER<\/strong><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s five to one; besides, they all are fresh.<br \/>\n<strong>SALISBURY<\/strong><br \/>\nGod&#8217;s arm strike with us! &#8217;tis a fearful odds.<br \/>\n<strong>WESTMORELAND<\/strong><br \/>\nO that we now had here<br \/>\nBut one ten thousand of those men in England<br \/>\nThat do no work to-day!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Medieval 2 Total War<\/strong> also games <strong>Agincourt<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AaqVV1-A3g8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, the voice over doesn&#8217;t seem to get any more rousing than this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Henry\u2019s longbowmen will be the key to defeating the French, striking them down as they traverse the muddy field. To protect his longbowmen from cavalry, Henry has ordered them to plant sharpened stakes in front of their positions\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An earthy voice shouts, &#8220;For Saint George!&#8221; a couple of times, but that&#8217;s about the level of inspiration offered. I haven&#8217;t played the game, I&#8217;m going by the video overview &#8212; but there&#8217;s no mention there of <strong>Crispin <\/strong>&#8212; though we do hear a yokel shout:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once more unto the breach, my Lord<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; a line swiped (and then tweaked) from King <strong>Henry<\/strong> himself, earlier in the play &#8212; at the siege of <strong>Harfleur<\/strong>, not at Agincourt, to be exact.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that the novel (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/014312093X\">Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy<\/a>), film (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kagemusha-Criterion-Collection-Tatsuya-Nakadai\/dp\/B00005JLEJ\">Kagemusha<\/a>, say) and television on occasion (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Honorable-Woman-Various\/dp\/B00KJ17FLC\">The Honourable Woman<\/a>) rise to their respective occasions &#8212; but games I think, not so much, thus far.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward (on behalf of future generations, I suppose) to the <strong>Kurosawa<\/strong> of the game genre &#8212; and to its <strong>Jean Cocteau<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; busy tidying away six or more posts before Spring Break delivers my college-age son to me &#8212; here&#8217;s one ] . We observe Shakespeare gaming &#8212; staging &#8212; playing &#8212; the Battle of Agincourt: ** A play, a game, a gamble. The odds are &#8220;fearful&#8221;.. WESTMORELAND Of fighting men they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[680,133,526,529,67,1095,1094,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fail","category-book","category-charles-cameron","category-games","category-movies","category-shakespeare","category-theater","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48441"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49261,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48441\/revisions\/49261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}