geeking out on shakespeare's histories

This was a really stunning piece--it's difficult to use the second person effectively, to embed the reader in a character's thought processes, but you've done a particularly good job here. Your Henry is both wonderfully complex and elegantly simple, full of competing sentiments that he simply can't articulate with the intricacy that he requires. The test, I think, is whether you can get your reader to love Richard and hold him in contempt at once; whether you can make the reader frustrated at his caprice and lustful at his touch and at the same time grieved by his death.

And as far as I'm concerned, you succeeded.