5 The Plays
Military Equestrian Drama
I will not change my horse with any that treads but on four pasterns. Ca, ha! He bounds from the earth, as if his entrails were hairs; le cheval volant, the Pegasus, Qui a les narines de feu! When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes […] he is pure air and fire […]
—William Shakespeare, Henry V
Military equestrian dramas are plays that include scenes of battles and related pageantry or other similar action that features horses. While some equestrian melodramas also include such military action, these tend to be small-scale conflicts that do not comprise the central focus of the plot. ...
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