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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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[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

I'm partial to the whole Henry VI saga, because ... dude, seductive Frenchwomen and severed heads and pirates and fake blind guys and more severed heads and Queen Margaret leading armies and young Richard being all snarky-like and did I mention the severed heads? What's not to like?

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

Henry VI isn't quite my favorite -- as anyone who's spoken to me for more than about five minutes knows, that would be Richard II -- but I do have a deep and abiding affection for it. Especially as the best stage production I've ever seen was the RSC's Henry VI/Richard III cycle about four years ago, which I saw on tour in Ann Arbor, when I was an undergrad at Michigan). The RSC residency was among the happiest two weeks of my life (if you sort of mentally snip out the part where I was finishing my BA thesis. Which was on Richard II, in fact, so I had the Shakespeare's Histories Full-Immersion Experience that semester. Never really recovered from it either).

What I think is sort of funny is that you get the whole spiel about how they're little-produced and not really all that good (less so now; their critical stock seems to be rising) and then every ten years or so someone stages a major production and they get rediscovered...

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Heck yeah, ditto that! They're not the best from a literary standpoint, IMO, but they're so ridiculously cool that I'm absolutely in love with them.

...as anyone who's spoken to me for about five minutes knows. ;)

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

Definitely! And that's without mentioning killing all the lawyers, and all the land being in common, and conjuring up evil spirits and more severed heads etc. I think Richard III is still my favourite individual play, but the first tetralogy as a whole is TEH BEST THING EVAH!!!