This appearance comes after the bombastic "Once more unto the breach." speech delivered by the King as he drives the comic stragglers Bardolph, Nym, Pistol and the Boy toward the enemy. We see him first as a soldier, albeit driving rather than leading his men into the breach. Neither a peripheral character nor merely comic in nature but a character well rounded, he affords humour but avoids buffoonery generates great affection from the audience and has poignancy, scope and dramatic range. Fluellen's obsession with proper military procedure epitomises this.įluellen does, however, have some 281 lines in Henry V. All are wordy 'Welsh windbags' with amusing speech patterns and pronunciations, reactionary, overly sensitive and pedantic to a degree. Shakespeare adheres to his seemingly common principle of portraying Welsh characters in his plays as basically comedic, offering the audience an opportunity to mock the manners, language, temperament and outmoded attitudes of their Celtic neighbours compare with Glendower in Henry IV, Part 1 and Sir Hugh Evans the Welsh Parson in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Illustration to Shakespeare's Henry V by H.
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