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[angevin2.livejournal.com]

I've made a community icon! This may not be worthy of a post, but it's pretty and I wanted to show it off. ;) (It's not the one I'm using for this post.)

Also, because you knew it had to happen, the obligatory History Plays survey: which one's your favorite? ;)

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[denorios.livejournal.com]

Richard II. Definitely. I never used to have much of an opinion on it, and then I saw Derek Jacobi as Richard, and my heart was given away freely. It's possibly one of the wordiest of the plays, but I just love all of Richard's speeches. And of course, John of Gaunt's dying speech, which everybody knows. ::hearts::

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

It's possibly one of the wordiest of the plays

That's part of its charm!

I wrote my BA thesis on Richard II, as mentioned above, mostly because I'd read it the summer before I started on the thesis, and although I'd expected to really like it based on what I knew about it going in, it sort of left me cold: I admired the language but it didn't do a thing for me emotionally, and this bothered me enough (being a fledgling Shakespearean) that I needed to work this out. Thus I got a thesis. Also over the course of the year I spent writing the thing the play sort of worked its way under my skin and since then has steadfastly refused to leave me alone. (Needless to say, at some point I can't trace, I figured it out... ;) )