Homework over three day weekend:

I am pleased that you will have three days to rest this weekend. I hope it is a wonderful weekend for you all.
This weekend, you must complete your reading of Act III and answer the following reading questions. You may turn in a hard copy of these questions in class on Monday.



A C T   I I I
1. In his speech before the walls of Harfleur, what does Henry say will cause his men to go "[o]nce more unto the breach"?
2. How do Nym and Pistol in III, ii contrast with Henry’s description of the yeomen in III, i, 28-34?
3. What does Henry threaten the people of Harfleur with if they do not surrender? What does this say about his character?
4. What feeling does Shakespeare convey in the scene in which Katherine the French Princess practices her English?
5. What has Bardolph done to be sentenced to hanging?
6. In Henry IV, Part 2, the young Henry is a crony of Bardolph’s. What is King Henry’s response to Bardolph, and what does
this say about Henry’s character?
7. What does Henry reveal to the French ambassador Montjoy about the state of readiness of his army as they approach the
bridge that the Duke of Exeter has taken?
8. What image of the French army does Shakespeare portray at the end of Act III