Branagh’s Henry V: An Example of Pluralistic Shakespeare In her essay “Shakespeare and Film: A Question of Perspective,” Catherine Belsey argues for the incapability of film to offer the multiple interpretations that the Elizabethan stage presented. “Film is the apotheosis of the modern, and it is in this sense that it inevitably narrows the plurality of an Elizabethan text.” However, Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V, in its awesome deluge into Shakespearean realism, offered so much more than a poetic history. In light of recent military conflicts, the 1989 film presented one man’s awful discoveries while