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One of the puzzles of trying to write a modernized re-imagining of Much Ado About Nothing is that there's really nothing you can do about the name Dogberry. It's just kind of there.

idiopathicsmile

Like, Leonato is Lee or Leigh, that's easy. Antonio, there's half a dozen possibilities. Pedro and John you don't even have to wrestle with. But Dogberry. Dogberry resists streamlining or reinterpretation. Dogberry is what it is, and refuses to be anything else. I am stymied by the enigma that is Dogberry.

#to be fair I think it was a dumbass name circa 1600 too

sksjjsjwjejsjwos

this might just be THE worst review oat 🥀

#Aeneas is not a good role model for kids...

jjestierr

dante with his vergil ita bag (colorized 2026)

#CRYING

drfaustus

happy pride, harry. (inspo)

#WEEPING #henry iv

linkloki

There are so many ways to read Henry V, but one that I've been thinking about a lot lately is focusing on it as a story being constructed around Henry after his death.

Because Hal isn't just dead, he's a dead soldier. (Even if he died after the war was over, we see him as a soldier by the way the story is told.)

There's such a fundamental loss of personhood in that (one that isn't present in just being a soldier), that works so well with the themes of the play. I did, unfortunately, lose some friends to war- and I always found it kinda horrifying watching those stories being created.

They all have to be heroes, of course- what happened in their last moments is truly irrelevant, and that means they have to be soldiers forever. Every flaw is sanded out, every doubt or regret is swept under the carpet. It doesn't matter if they wanted to be there or not, or if they should have, or if they did the right thing. It doesn't matter who they were before either- at least, it's not a part of *this* story, because we aren't talking about the person, we're talking about the hero.

Doesn't that sound kind of familiar when thinking about the Henriad?

So I think it’s very interesting to see HV as an unreliable narrative through that lens. We saw Hal, we know Hal- this story is not about him. Henry V isn't Hal not only because his character made an in-universe choice to change, but also because the story can't let him be.

I think this works especially well when you look at scenes like when Henry commands the killing of the hostages. He does it twice, each time for a different reason- isn't it interesting to think of it as the story blurring as it tries to fit that moment into a heroic narrative?

Idk if it's my favorite reading but I do think it's an interesting way to look at it

#OOOOH. EATING THIS WITH A SPOON #henry v #I do think the tonal difference between the h4s and h5 is crazy #the h4s are like. messy human beings living messy human lives with absurdly high stakes #and then. yeah henry v isn't hal anymore he's barely even human anymore #hm. heaves a BIG sigh. I may have more ideas for fantasy loose retelling of the histories #<- project I started and abandoned in like 2021 but. hmmmmmm

lipstickhamlet

henry bolingbroke + text posts

#henry iv

cozyrogue

the "rip ___ you would have loved ___" meme is inherently more fun with ancient characters. rip clytemnestra you would have loved morse code. rip theseus you would have loved the airtag. rip callisto you would have loved wearing shorts.

cozyrogue

i was going to write "rip pentheus you would have loved estrogen" but i lost it at "rip pentheus" because that is. what happened

#yeah they sure did rip him!

caseyjking

Jocasta Puts the Puzzle Together (after Loraux's Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman), Casey J. King

Clues with a γ are Greek words. Phrases in quotes (that aren't Lear) are headers from Loraux. This is in the rough shape of a different poetry form, if you can figure it out. Good luck.

(solutions here) (also inspired by Iphigenia asks the Pythia about her fate)

#WA #oedipus

senatortedcruz

Risencrantz and Grindenstern

#are DEAD

thoodleoo

modern day version of the wedding of peleus and thetis where eris goes onto their wedding's facebook event page and comments "hetslop" on all of their wedding photos before finding a picture of athena, hera, and aphrodite together and leaving a comment telling everybody to rate each of them out of 10

#CRYING. YEAH

helsinore

prince hal would be on the accord server like you wouldn't even begin to believe. prince hal would be creating a cult of personality around himself and his totally masculine urge to be a big tiddy goth gf. hamlet knows that she herself is a trans woman but hal is boobs fuckin deep in the idea that he's a real man who is going to turn it all around once he wins that million. if he starts to feel the denial slipping he's going to double down even harder. he's going to eliminate falstaff in discursive combat. ned poins disappearing during henry iv part 2? yeah, that was her realizing she was trans and quietly dipping out, away from the server and hal's life. hal would be laura 100%, hal would be laura 200 fucking percent. hamlet is like "i am going to strip you flesh from bone for what you did to horatio" and hal is like "with what muscles, gxrlfriend?" it's a fucking nightmare on that server.

butchhamlet

will somebody please please write "herein i will imitate the sun" but for prince hal deciding he's only gonna be a woman for a LITTLE longer until he wins the giant boobs competition and THEN he'll turn his shit around he promises

#CRYING. YOU'RE SO RIGHT #I like to think in this au hotspur is also a trans woman but she's getting hrt more uh. traditionally

en-theos

t'es woke toi🫵 toi t'es un WOKE LEFT😡 tu supporte les ENTERREMENT pis les rites funéraires toi🪦 veux-tu savoir mes lois? mes croyances? ☝️the/bai🐉 ☝️eteo/cles 👑 ☝️lo/yau/té🔥 ☝️go/maenads/go 🍇

💙sphinx pis dragon🩷 toi c'est quoi vos loyautés hein?🤨 vas-y. dis moj tes croyances🫵 👴oe/di/pe?🦶 💞fa/mille? 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 j'vas prier pour tois🙏

#sure I'll reblog that #antigone

lipstickhamlet

coming up with bad ship names for shakespeare's henriad

bordeauxlingbroke: almost sounds respectable like an old fashioned classic fandom ship name. -1 point however because he's called richard of bordeaux like twice the whole play and only after he's deposed

henrichard: sure but why does richard take up so much space. i mean it's as he would've wanted

richhenry: too generic. this could be literally any 2 guys. also sounds like we're just calling him rich

four two (iv ii): +1 point for possible gen alpha appeal (you could say it like "six seven") -1 point because no one will know what the fuck this means

hoins: i think "halpoins" is the actual ship name for these two but consider: why don't we make it worse

hed poinsmouth: why don't we make it worse 2

nal monmoins: why don't we make it worse 3

halercy: an alternative to the commonly used "halspur", but with hotspur's actual last name. a mouthful to say. sounds like an alcohol brand

henry ^2: actually why aren't we using this one

hotkate: a sexy and fresh alternative to the commonly used "katespur", implying that kate is hot. it could also be "hotskate" which suggests some kind of skater vibe

helsinore

can i suggest dickbroke for r2/bolingbroke

lipstickhamlet

YES or maybe bolingdick or dicklingbroke... wait oh my god what about richardbroke. it's also the plot summary of the play so it's perfect.

10/10

helsinore

omg richardbroke.....or dare i even say, richbroke. also the plot and demonstrates the mutually destroying equilibrium those two have going on

#big fan of hed poinsmouth #richard ii #henry iv

lipstickhamlet

name: henry (harry if we're friends)

pronouns: he/him, sometimes we/us (royal)

sexuality: probably straight

likes: my dad, england, rebellion when i'm the one doing it, being in touch with the common people, going to the holy land, the idea of being king

dislikes: my son, rebellion when it's against me, being in touch with the common people but when it's my son doing it, when people won't give me things that belong to me (i.e. hostages, inheritance), actually being king

DNI if you: support the earl of northumberland (we used to be mutuals but he unfollowed me and i don't want to talk about it), are a r*chard apologist, fit other standard DNI criteria

please do NOT message me about mortimer, news of my unthrifty son, or the blood on my guilty hand. i've had to turn off anon because of this. if you send me another ask i am reporting and blocking you

#henry iv #hotspur keeps making alts to spam 'mortimer' in his askbox