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landofnowhereNot much reading this week, might make up for it with some Shakespeare.
Unconquerable Sun, Kate Elliott. Continues to be fun hijinks, I continue to not know enough to know th Alexander the Great parallels.
Richard III, William Shakespeare. Really the culmination of months of discord reading of the series of history plays from Edward III to Richard III, of which I'd previously only read the Richard plays. Richard III is still a really good play, and Richard II is better than I remembered it as a 13-year-old. History is still not my favorite genre of Shakespeare (why did the college class I took on Shakespearean Genres not discuss history as a genre? Admittedly it was only have about Shakespeare and half about his contemporaries, but), but there are some good bits in it. I now know a lot about what makes a Good King and a Bad King, though I'm not sure how much I care. I've also learned that if your heir to the throne is a kid, this never ends well.
Also the text chat took Montague's line "And I unto to sea from whence I came" in Henry VI part 3, and ran with it, which has given me various ideas about a selkie fix-it universe for Henry VI/Richard III. The short version is that various members of the York family are selkies, including Rutland, who faked his own death and swam off to be a humanist selkie, Richard III, who is probably a selkie stuck in mid-shapeshift, the cause of all his problems; also Clarence presumably survived being drowned in malmsey by turning into seal form).
Unconquerable Sun, Kate Elliott. Continues to be fun hijinks, I continue to not know enough to know th Alexander the Great parallels.
Richard III, William Shakespeare. Really the culmination of months of discord reading of the series of history plays from Edward III to Richard III, of which I'd previously only read the Richard plays. Richard III is still a really good play, and Richard II is better than I remembered it as a 13-year-old. History is still not my favorite genre of Shakespeare (why did the college class I took on Shakespearean Genres not discuss history as a genre? Admittedly it was only have about Shakespeare and half about his contemporaries, but), but there are some good bits in it. I now know a lot about what makes a Good King and a Bad King, though I'm not sure how much I care. I've also learned that if your heir to the throne is a kid, this never ends well.
Also the text chat took Montague's line "And I unto to sea from whence I came" in Henry VI part 3, and ran with it, which has given me various ideas about a selkie fix-it universe for Henry VI/Richard III. The short version is that various members of the York family are selkies, including Rutland, who faked his own death and swam off to be a humanist selkie, Richard III, who is probably a selkie stuck in mid-shapeshift, the cause of all his problems; also Clarence presumably survived being drowned in malmsey by turning into seal form).
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Date: 8 Apr 2021 11:33 (UTC)Also I love the idea of the selkie Yorks.
No mention of history as a genre in Shakespeare
Date: 9 Apr 2021 03:00 (UTC)Sorry, free associating, not in any way answering your question.