Henry V, Kenneth Branagh,Agincourt 3,Non Nobis, and Te Deum

Henry V (1989) Kenneth Branagh, Non Nobis, and Te Deum Non nobis, is a short Latin hymn used as a prayer of thanksgiving and expression of humility. The Latin text derives from Psalm 113:9 (according to the Vulgate numbering), which corresponds to Psalm 115:1 in the King James Version. It reads... Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, [Not to us, Lord, not to us] Sed nomini tuo da gloriam. [But to Thy name give the glory] This psalm celebrates the defeat of the Egyptian armies and God's deliverance of Israel at the Red Sea. Shakespeare, in his play Henry V, has the king proclaim the singing of both the Non nobis and Te Deum after the victory at Agincourt Henry V was the most active dramatic experience Shakespeare ever presented. In his 1989 film, Kenneth Branagh underlines the theatrical emphasis of this implicit stage direction. He extends the climax for several minutes by setting Patrick Doyle's choral-symphonic rendition of the 'Non Nobis' hymn behind a single tracking shot that follows Henry as he bears the dead body of a boy across the corpse- strewn field of Agincourt. The idea for this operatic device was supplied by Holinshed, who copied it from Halle, who got the story from a chain of traditions that originated in the event staged by the real King Henry in 1415.