I liked this, but I just couldn't get into it more than that. It's no Richard II, that's for sure. If anything, it put me in mind of The Comedy of Errors, my least favourite Shakespeare play thus far. This is, I realise, something of a ridiculous comparison, but it's in the ridiculousness that the comparison lies. There seemed to me to be too much (supposedly) funny stuffing at the beginning of this - pranks and tricks and general silliness. (It's hard to believe that Henry V developed from this jackass; the change is totally unconvincing.) That being said, all of them still seem like a pack of self-important windbags and my sympathy lies with none of them. Still, the play improved out of sight in the second half, once the battle begun and people stopped acting - for the most part - like utter fools.

There are some fantastic insults in here, though.