Well, as a dedicated Mistress Shore fan, I'm not sure she would have him. At least, Thomas Heywood's Jane wouldn't, since she's a very moral person apart from a spot of adultery, and the much-shallower Mistress Shore of the Elizabethan popular ballads would have insisted on a king who was pretty. I don't know which mental image of her Shakespeare was working with, but I'd assume it was one or the other of the above.
I think it's about the power and the challenge, more than anything. With a hefty dose of "they crowned Daddy Dearest with paper and stuck his severed head up on Micklegate Bar, and I'm going to make sure that NEVER HAPPENS TO ME." And, of course, in Henry VI-world the only reliable way to make sure it wouldn't happen to you was to do it to everybody else first.
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Date: 2005-10-13 06:35 pm (UTC)I think it's about the power and the challenge, more than anything. With a hefty dose of "they crowned Daddy Dearest with paper and stuck his severed head up on Micklegate Bar, and I'm going to make sure that NEVER HAPPENS TO ME." And, of course, in Henry VI-world the only reliable way to make sure it wouldn't happen to you was to do it to everybody else first.