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unicornofthemidwest · 7 months

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Girls will see narrative foils who hate each other but can never be separated and be like "they should kiss"

#follow up to the ham post #hamlet and laertes #hotspur and hal #pearl white and rose red #<-- from GQ not the fairy tale #also it's been a hot second since I read Tale of Two Cities but I want to say Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay??#Valjean and javert #shakespeare #hamlet #henriad #ghost quartet #tale of two cities apparently #les mis

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suits-of-woe · 7 months

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the wild thing about henry iv and hal is they clash constantly but so much of their rhetoric on kingship is

genuinely

exactly

the same

henry iv thinks his son doesn't understand the lessons he's trying to teach him. meanwhile hal has already internalized them so perfectly that he's pulling off the same strategy so well that even his father has no idea.

#I AM NORMAL ABOUT SHAKESPEARE'S HENRIAD #henriad #henry iv #prince hal #shakespeare #mine

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metaphysical-cheese · 9 months

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hes bisexual hes a war criminal he has daddy issues hes the king of england hes a drunk hes an idiot hes a genius hes delusional he hates the french. i didnt say a name but he popped into your head didnt he

#henriad #henry v #oh my god this post is so stupid. sorry to the world #shakespeare #shut up nee

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rosencrantzsguildenstern · 2 months

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Best Shakespeare Adaptations Tournament

THE BRACKET!

the final round will begin soon!

all tournament related stuff, including the polls, will be under the tag 'tournament'.

"what is 'best'?" that's up to you, but what i'm hoping for is people judging more on individual quality rather than accuracy!

lineup

SIDE A

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Hamlet)

Elsinore (Hamlet)

Hamletmachine (Hamlet)

Lion King 1.5 (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead)

Fat Ham (Hamlet)

To Be or Not To Be (Hamlet)

Haider (Hamlet)

Fortinbras (Hamlet)

My Own Private Idaho (Henry IV & Henry V)

The Prince (Henry IV and Hamlet)

American Moor (Othello)

Enter the Body (King Lear, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet)

Nothing Much to Do (Much Ado About Nothing)

10 Things I Hate About You (The Taming of the Shrew)

Requiem of the Rose King (Richard III & Henry VI Part 3)

Teenage Dick (Richard III)

SIDE B

Gnomeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

All Shook Up (Twelfth Night)

She's the Man (Twelfth Night)

Duodecimal (Twelfth Night)

These Violent Delights (Romeo & Juliet)

West Side Story (Romeo & Juliet)

Teen Beach Movie (West Side Story)

Prince of Cats (Romeo & Juliet)

Ran (King Lear)

A Thousand Acres (King Lear)

The Witch From Mercury (The Tempest)

Return to the Forbidden Planet (The Tempest)

Love's Labors Lost (same— musical adaptation)

Foul is Fair (MacBeth)

ShakespeareRetold MacBeth/MacChef (MacBeth)

Throne of Blood/Kumonosu-jō (MacBeth)

#tournament #shakespeare #the witch from mercury #rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #duodecimal #west side story #lion king #my own private idaho #haider #requiem of the rose king #hamlet #henriad #romeo & juliet #she's the man #the prince #fat ham #ok im not tagging everything #lit #chitra.txt

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butchhamlet · 1 year

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some reasons you should watch abigail thorn’s “the prince”

i mean, reasons beyond “it’s about trans women in a shakespeare multiverse and abigail thorn plays hotspur.” because--do you need more? but i have more to say, so i’m going to say it.

1. the exploration of the conflation of death and transition. i think trans people are in the habit of pushing back against the idea that transition is any sort of metaphorical death, because so many cis people say shit about feeling like they’ve lost a son/daughter/brother/sister/niece/nephew/gendered acquaintance/etc. but in truth, taking the plunge in deciding to transition, or deciding even to be honest with yourself about your transness, can look and feel a lot like a death, even if it’s a death that’s necessary for a rebirth (something thorn & other trans writers have touched on before). i can’t cite specific parts because spoilers but just trust me that this does a lot with that that made me want to put my head in my hands and scream

2. the interaction with manhood in the history plays. the henriad is incredibly concerned with what it means to be a man the right way--richard ii’s effeminacy assayed against bolingbroke’s stubborn strength; hotspur’s yearning for glory and love of war tied to his destructive masculinity and abhorrence of the feminine; hal’s gendernonconformity through use of language more often than weapons; henry v’s presentation of the english as a virile “band of brothers” identified in contrast to the foppish french dandies. the way this play examines gender--womanhood, manhood, masculinity, femininity, structural misogyny--is fucking delicious in that context, particularly in that the play turns hotspur’s obsession with masculine glory into something of a defense mechanism, as hotspur strives to be the person northumberland and worcester and kate percy expect. (ALSO THE COSTUMING. AND THE SWORD. AND THE DOUBLE-CASTING. AND THE SYMBOLISMS. FABULOUS.)

3. interaction with 1H4 in general. the way thorn cut up this play and rearranged it. i couldn’t go two minutes without turning to my friend and hissing, “this is a line from the real play! except in context it doesn’t go here!” and then gasping over how shifting the context, length, or speaker of speeches brought new aspects of both works to light. ALSO? SO MANY SPEECHES/SCENES IN SHAKESPEAREAN VERSE THAT WERE NOT IN THE ORIGINAL PLAY AT ALL. WHICH MEANS THIS WOMAN WAS JUST WRITING RAW IAMBIC PENTAMETER. LIKE, CONVINCING ELIZABETHAN-ERA IAMBIC PENTAMETER. WHAT. (also also! you don’t have to be a shakespeare nerd to enjoy this play, but if you like iambic pentameter jokes, boy howdy have i got good news for you!)

4. that said, it’s accessible to non-shakespeare-superfans, too! if you don’t know much about the histories, or if you struggle to comprehend shakespeare, don’t fear! the play is doing more than just riffing on shakespeare. it’s at least 50% modern speech, and the switches from one dialect to another tend to come at the most destabilizing and thus hilarious (or gutting) moments. there’s one particular modern-language-paraphrase of a specific 1H4 speech that i haven’t stopped thinking about since i saw it, because it’s the perfect balance of comedic and agonizing.

5. trans people. not just transgender shakespeare characters, but also modern-day trans women! i love that we get both original trans characters and shakespearean characters hit with the transgenderification beam, and i love how many trans people there are; it allows for a more thorough exploration of identity, and also so many good fucking jokes.

6. prince hal is gay for real. not sure i need to say much else about this

7. who doesn’t want to listen to abigail thorn recite shakespeare? not even just 1H4! but i shan’t say more, because oh, baby, that one’s gotta hit organically.

you can read more about it here if you’re not yet convinced, but come on. if you like shakespeare, or if you like art about gender and transness and narratives and confinement and freedom, or, hell, if you like seeing women with swords, i literally don’t know what to tell you i don’t know why you’re still reading this go watch the prince come on now

#max.txt #the prince #abigail thorn #henry iv #henriad #bottom bless thee thou art trans #no she is not sponsoring me. but should she like to--#god this play is so fucking good y;'all. im fucking crazy. im fucking insane. im bonkers in yonkers

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seangarlyn · 5 months

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If you don't pick the obvious answer I will be forced to rage like Percy :(

#shakespeare #hollow crown #Henriad #tom hiddleston #Henry V #richard ii of england #henry iv #rb for sample size #booklr

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uwmspeccoll · 6 months

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Shakespeare Weekend

We are halfway through Nicholas Rowe’s (1674-1718) The Work of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes! Published in London in 1709 by Jacob Tonson (1655–1736), this second edition holds an important place within Shakespearean publication history. The Work of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes is recognized as the first octavo edition, the first illustrated edition, the first critically edited edition, and the first to present a biography of the poet.

This week, we explore the third volume of The Work of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes. The third volume encompasses historic plays including a Shakespearean Henriad depicting the rise of English kings. The volume is comprised of King John, King Richard II, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, King Henry V, King Henry VI Part I, and King Henry VI Part II. While the plays have recurring characters and settings, there is no evidence that they were written with the intention of being considered as a group. A full-page engraving, designed by the French Baroque artist and book illustrator François Boitard (1670-1715) and engraved by English engraver Elisha Kirkall (c.1682–1742), precedes each play.

In addition to Rowe’s editorial decisions to divide the plays into scenes and include notes on the entrances and exits of the players, he also normalised the spelling of names and included a dramatis personae preceding each play. The only chronicled critique of Rowe’s momentous editorial endeavor is his choice in basing his text on the corrupt Fourth Folio.

View more volumes of The Works of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes here.

View more Shakespeare Weekend posts.

-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#shakespeare weekend #nicholas rowe #the works of mr. william shakespear #king john #king richard II #Henry IV #King Henry V #King Henry VI #jacob tonson #henriad #François Boitard #Elisha Kirkall #engravings

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rambleonwithrosie · 3 months

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The Lancastrian casting did NOT have to go this hard in the Hollow Crown... Like excuse me who said they could make ALL the Henrys hotties?

Like y'all I was already pro-Lancaster I didn't need this kinda propaganda to seduce- I mean induce me

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heartofstanding · 3 months

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#harriet walter #jeremy irons #jasper britton #henriad #henry iv #no bolingbrokes sorry this is tumblr and its about the old henries

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laertesbean · 29 days

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The pinnacle of dark academia is reading the entire Henriad for ✨️funsies✨️ when you have three totally unrelated uni assignments due in during the next week 💀

Feeling like I was written by Donna Tartt 🙃

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suits-of-woe · 1 year

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#1h4 sweep let's go #although my second choice is 3h6 which is an objectively wrong answer and yet <3 #shakespeare #henriad #rose tetralogy #king john #richard ii #henry iv #henry v #henry vi #richard iii #henry viii

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bensbooks · 3 months

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ARC Review: Henry Henry

Henry Henry follows Hal Lancaster—22, gay, Catholic—as he spends his first years out of Oxford floating between internships, drinking with his actor friends, struggling through awkward hook-ups, and occasionally going to confession to be absolved of his sins. When a grouse shooting accident-—funny in retrospect—makes a romance out of Hal's rivalry with fumblingly leftist family friend Harry Percy, Hal finds that he wants, for the first time, to be himself. But his father Henry is an Englishman: he will not let his son escape tradition. To save himself, Hal must reckon not only with grief and shame but with the wounds of his family's past.

My review:

Henry Henry is an oft-times dark debut about a queer noble in the 21st century. Hal lost his mother as a child, and his Lord father Henry becomes overbearing towards his eldest son, but is now getting remarried 15 years after being widowed. To cope with many aspects of his life, Hal turns to vices such as sex, drugs, and overspending his father's wealth.

Hal finds himself spending more time with his from-birth rival Harry as their relationship changes from enemies to lovers, much to the displeasure of their noble fathers. Throughout the novel, Hal finds himself wanting to open up about the dark secrets regarding his father.

The writing feels very consistent to how I imagine Hal would speak, and there's sprinklings of humor without risking it becoming a humorous book. I highly enjoyed this book, there was themes within in that made me want to keep reading and find out what is going to happen next.

#books #booklr #bookblr #upcoming book #henry henry #allen bratton #queer books #queer retellings #Henriad

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ladyvictoriart · 4 months

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"Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honors Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth, Thou seek’st the greatness that will overwhelm thee."

Henry IV: Part 2, Act 4, Scene 3

#ink art #manga art #traditional art #literature #shakespeare #history #henriad

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iamnmbr3 · 2 years

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Shakespeare Characters Playing Chess

Horatio: ...

Horatio: It’s your move!

Hamlet: I’m thinking.

Horatio: This is boring.

Hamlet: Not for the audience. They can hear my internal monologue. And let me tell you. It’s a banger.

**

Aufidius: You can’t move there. It puts you in check.

Coriolanus: Don’t tell me what to do.

Aufidius: Fine. Then I'll just take your king.

Coriolanus: *throws the entire board at him*

Aufidius: ...

Coriolanus: ...

Aufidius: Your place or mine?

**

Henry IV: Checkmate.

Richard II: ... Really?

Henry IV: Too soon?

**

Brutus: You win. What do you want for your prize?

Cassius: Your solemn promise that you acknowledge I’m the superior strategist and next time you’ll follow my lead on planning.

Brutus: ... :/

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Dauphin: Your king is surrounded and you have 5 pieces left. Are you sure you’re not ready to concede?

Henry V: No. And I won’t change my mind so stop asking.

*1 epic speech later*

Henry V: Checkmate

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butchhamlet · 1 year

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The phrase Hal’s cute little war crime is so funny. Me talking about metal gear solid

shakespeare's history plays 🤝 metal gear solid

mostly about men, in a way that is homoerotic AND misogynistic

the women who do exist are unfathomably cool

look how cool as fuck war and weapons are (war and weapons are corrupt and family-destroying)

guys who should be dead surviving miraculously

violations of the geneva convention

bisexuality

#max.txt #all of my mgs information is based off what you've told me so i hope this is right.#asks #henriad

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rambleonwithrosie · 3 months

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I wonder if the ye olde Shakespeare fandom had Poins stans who were outraged when he just didn't appear in Henry V...

#Shakespeare thoughts #Shakespeare #billy the bard #william Shakespeare #ned poins #poins #henry v #henry iv #henry iv part 1 #henry iv part 2 #the bard #henriad #the henriad #histories #history plays #Shakespeare histories

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