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thisenglandWhy did [Shakespeare's] Richard III want to be king anyway? What it to fulfil some inner need, or just because everyone like power and so he wanted what everyone else wanted?
Do we believe him when he says (in 3HVI) that it's just because he can't get a shag? Why would someone see murdering one's way to the throne as an alternative to lots of hot nookie? What's wrong with masturbation, hiring a prostitute, or making friends with Jane Shore* just like everyone else?
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angevin2 for messing up your lovely community with my strange and obscene speculations. Anyone who suggests 'inner needs' that have nothing to do with sex will be adored and admired.
* I made Richard/Jane fanfiction once. I bet you wanted to know that. And come to think of it, why didn't he just accumulate some fangirls? But I don't want to go down the well-worn, 'look at the Lady Anne thing - actually he clearly didn't have any trouble with women at all path'... Actually I've made fanfiction that explains that one too. But that's all beside the point. 'Inner needs'. If you want to know why I want to know, I waffle about it here.
Do we believe him when he says (in 3HVI) that it's just because he can't get a shag? Why would someone see murdering one's way to the throne as an alternative to lots of hot nookie? What's wrong with masturbation, hiring a prostitute, or making friends with Jane Shore* just like everyone else?
Sorry,
angevin2 for messing up your lovely community with my strange and obscene speculations. Anyone who suggests 'inner needs' that have nothing to do with sex will be adored and admired. * I made Richard/Jane fanfiction once. I bet you wanted to know that. And come to think of it, why didn't he just accumulate some fangirls? But I don't want to go down the well-worn, 'look at the Lady Anne thing - actually he clearly didn't have any trouble with women at all path'... Actually I've made fanfiction that explains that one too. But that's all beside the point. 'Inner needs'. If you want to know why I want to know, I waffle about it here.
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Date: 2005-10-13 11:10 pm (UTC)Are you kidding? Strange and obscene speculations are what I do! You should read my serious scholarly work! ;)
Or the margins of my class notes. My LJ doesn't really convey that I frequently have imaginations as foul as Vulcan's stithy.
I'm thoroughly knackered after a long week so haven't got a whole lot to contribute at the moment, but it seems too like the whole point that once he actually gets the crown he hasn't the first idea what to do with it (other than, you know, keep on killing people, which had heretofore worked for him) ties in. In the sense that what people really desire is desire itself, so that when Richard actually achieves what he's after the game falls apart (or, to be deconstructionist about it, the entire narrative becomes untenable)...