Shakespeare's Ajinkor Victory

Shakespeare gives us the arrogant French routed by plucky English warriors. The play gives us a classic underdog story to emphasize the magical aspects of this victory Shakespeare suppresses the information from the sources which attribute the victory at Ajinkor to superior English firepower. These are diversionary entertainments like Busby Berkeley musicals in the depression era of the 30s or strictly come dancing in our own age of austerity they avoid difficult issues rather than committed Henry the fifth falls into this category.