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[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

I am perhaps not the only one who, spurred by the histories ficathon, is looking forward to this year's Yuletide Treasure.

This post is intended to point histories fans in its direction, because the more of us there are the more likely it is there will be histories!fic, and that is a good thing.

But it's also intended to suggest we get some kind of consensus about how our fandoms are categorised. Last year there was only 'the Henry plays', which seems to me to be a bit unsatisfactory. But how should it be done?

- One big 'Shakespeare - Histories' category?
- 'first tetralogy' and 'second tetralogy'? But what about people who get them mixed up - it's a bit confusing that the second one comes first in historical terms, and what about people who don't know what a tetralogy is but are fans of R3 or H5 or whatever?
- 'Richard II', 'the Henry IV plays', 'Henry V', 'the Henry VI plays', 'Richard III'?
- individual plays?

It seems to me that when it gets to the fandom requesting part of the schedule, in September, it would be better if we could all agree and ask for the same things so as not to confuse the organisers.*


* Although more histories-esque if we could have a giant schism over it, split into Team Whiterose and Team Redrose, and then maybe get assassinated by a bunch of Henry VIII and King John fans incensed at not getting included at all.

Comments

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

The way it seems to have been done traditionally, as you note, is that everything is lumped together as "The Henry Plays," which is rather unfair to the Ricardians among us! Although on the other hand the only histories fics that ever get written for Yuletide are Henry V/Scroope for some reason.

I think that we are probably stuck with "The Henry Plays" as a category because it already exists, although if I were in charge of these things, I would count the individual plays individually but consider the multipart plays one play for categorization purposes. I suppose that the Richard plays would probably each get their own category if anyone wrote anything about them for Yuletide; other Shakespeare plays get listed individually...

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

I don't think we are stuck with it. As I recall, each category has to be requested anew each year otherwise they don't include it. So if people requested the fandoms in my third option and didn't request 'the Henry plays' then that would happen, particularly if we sent an email (or emails) to the organisers explaining why.

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

You're probably right, though I mostly meant that there are some fics in the archive under the rubric "the Henry plays" (although they are both about Henry V). I am not sure how that would affect future Yuletides though, so.