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I showed two friends chapter 1 Kathy pov of RCBG and they immediately said "this is just like when Prince Hal did the 'Herein will I imitate the sun' speech." Ogre so stupid ogre only can identify potentialities such as "Henry IV Part II banishment speech but in the context of Emmy doing the banishing," and "Laura is kinda like Prince Hal," but ogre completely missed how fucking chuuni Prince Hal was for that speech in Henry IV Part 1 Act 1 Scene 2 despite Hal having egg vibes!!! Kathy is LITERALLY redeeming time when (wo)man least think she will AND she so offends to makes offense a skill through her scheming against Nichole in the early part of RCBG!!!! At this rate orgre will never fully connect the dots needed to fully weave the tapestry of Richard Competitive Bolingbroke Growth!!!!

#in case you want to know Where I Get It From #these friends also have read all of war and peace. i have not.#in another universe i'm WAP posting about the breasties #helsinore.txt #rcbg posting #henriad #friendship #hashtag what the hell sure

henry bolingbroke + text posts

#textpost memes #charlie.txt #henry bolingbroke #richard ii #henry iv #henriad #shakespeare

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥this strain is called “richard ii” you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever man. i dont feel shit

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw john of gaunt over there

my buddy henry bolingbroke pacing: dick 2 is lying to us

#henriad #richard ii #shakespeare #getting really into ricky2 rn. feeling crazy

i'm not saying henry bolingbroke is just like hamlet for real but i do think it's significant that he Did All That literally right the fuck after his dad died. without him getting to say goodbye. i do think that is a factor worth considering.

#like yes people talk lots about the fact that he's reclaiming his father's inheritance #and that he hates richard even more because the banishment prevented him from being there when gaunt was on his deathbed #but just on a more basic level have we considered that he is probably doing Really Fucking Bad mentally #obviously we don't see as much of that as with someone like hamlet but. i do think about it. i do think about it.#apparently i'm giving into the bolingbroke posting disease now #shakespeare #henry iv #henry bolingbroke #henriad #richard ii #mine

Life hack! If you want to know what brand of "something's wrong" someone is, just ask them who their favorite character in the Henriad is!

There is no way you like any of those people for normal reasons

#yes it only works on shakespeare fans #whatever #tag yourself my favorite is Bolingbroke #shakespeare #shakespeare plays #henry iv #henry v #prince hal #richard ii #henry vi #richard iii #Shakespeare's histories #henriad

2nd Henriad + textposts

#shakespeare #henry iv part 1 #richard ii #henriad #richard #aumerle #Henry iv #hotspur #kate #couldnt find a picture of Stratford Hotspur which is tragic because I’m always thinking about him

do you ever think about how in the henriad/english histories the power struggles of each play are reflected in the narrative focus on each of the main characters?

like in richard ii there is a pretty equal amount of scenes centred on richard/on bolingbroke. we go back and forth between them and see the same events/lines from both perspectives because the play is about their fight for control of both the narrative and the throne. in henry vi, as power gradually shifts away from the lancasters, the play basically becomes Richard iii the Prequel. henry isn't even dead yet, and after that there are 2 york kings, but we already know who the person with actual power is.

and I think henry iv does it best. bc henry spends almost the entire play accusing hal of usurping him, of plotting to replace him while he's still alive. and while that is mostly henry's paranoia and mistrust of hal talking - most productions of henry iv are based on the idea that the main character of that play is, in fact, hal.

then there's falstaff, who is constantly trying to get himself a better position in life by getting closer to hal and by placing himself at the centre of major political events (like killing percy). basically - fighting to make more of the plot about him. Player Kings w/Ian Mckellen as falstaff decided to actually make falstaff the main character over hal, which changes the themes of the play completely and shows us hal in a very different light. without changing anything in the text - just through theming, music, emotion, emphasis, and staging. and it works so well. because the text is already constructed as a 3-way power struggle between 3 main characters who are all trying to tell you that this play is actually about them and their journey.

meanwhile, no one can argue that plays like henry v, or richard iii, are about anyone other than their namesakes. henry v doesn't randomly feature a ton of scenes about the dauphin, because he doesn't pose an actual threat to hal's control of england or of the narrative. richard iii isn't king until act 4 but he remains the main character throughout - because he has all the power.

I think about that.

#idk man I think it's neat #it's such a clever device #henriad #Ian Mckellen's Falstaff changed my brain chemistry #shakespeare #richard ii #henry iv #henry v #henry vi #richard iii #prince hal #player kings #the hollow crown

Shakespeare Adaptation Stats (courtesy of wikipedia)

(all info is taken off of this wiki page

descriptions in purple refer to the most recent adaptation)

All's Well That Ends Well:

4 adaptations, oldest from 1968, most recent from 2009, from National Theatre Live

Antony and Cleopatra:

7 adaptations, oldest from 1908, most recent from 2002, 'Kannaki', Indian modern-day adaption (I never read A&C so idk how loyal the adaptation is based off of the wikipidia summary)

As You Like It:

11 adaptations, oldest from 1912, most recent from 2010, direct-to-video recording from a performance at Shakespeare's Globe

Comedy of Errors:

9 adaptations, oldest from 1940, most recent from 1989, Canadian TV production

Coriolanus:

2 adaptations, oldest from 1984, most recent from 2012, just listed as 'Film' with no notes, so nothing to say about this one

Cymbeline:

3 adaptations, oldest from 1913, most recent from 2014, a modern-day adaptation featuring biker gangs

Hamlet:

43 adaptations, oldest from 1900, most recent from 2019, the live-action Lion King remake, which somehow qualifies for this because it's listed on the wiki. unfortunately.

Henry IV, 1:

7 adaptations, oldest from 1960, most recent from 2012, The Hollow Crown series

Henry IV, 2:

6 adaptations, oldest from 1960, most recent from 2012, The Hollow Crown series

Henry V:

9 adaptations, oldest from 1944, most recent from 2019, 'The King', supposedly based on Henry IV 1+2 too, but only listed as an adaptation of Henry V

Henry VI, 1:

5 adaptations, oldest from 1960, most recent from 2016, The Hollow Crown series

Henry VI, 2:

8 adaptations, oldest from 1960, most recent from 2016, The Hollow Crown series

Henry VI, 3:

6 adaptations, oldest from 1960, most recent from 2016, The Hollow Crown series

Henry VIII:

2 adaptations, oldest from 1911, most recent from 1979, a BBC TV adaptation

Julius Caesar:

9 adaptations, oldest from 1950, most recent from 2018, all-female stage production, filmed

King John:

4 adaptations, oldest from 1899, most recent from 2015, Stratford festival stage production, filmed

King Lear:

20 adaptations, oldest from 1910, most recent from 2018, modern AU in a militarized London

Love's Labour's Lost:

4 adaptations, oldest from 1920, most recent from 2000, 1930s AU, also described as a 'musical romantic comedy,' also directed by Kenneth Branagh, also the music is "classic broadway songs of the 1930s"-- there's a lot going on with this one.

Macbeth:

47 adaptations, oldest from 1908, most recent from 2021, the A24 version

Measure for Measure:

6 adaptations, oldest from 1943, most recent from 2019, modern-day Australian AU

Merchant of Venice:

14 adaptations, oldest from 1914, most recent from 2004, the Al Pacino version, but other than that a straightforward adaptation

Merry Wives of Windsor:

5 adaptations, oldest from 1950, most recent from 1982, BBC TV adaptation

Midsummer Night's Dream:

22 adaptations, oldest from 1909, most recent from 2018, modern-day Los Angeles, California AU

Much Ado About Nothing:

7 adaptations, oldest from 1973, most recent from 2023, 'Anyone But You', an enemies to lovers romcom where the main characters named Beatrice and Ben-- other than that it doesn't seem like it has much in common with the original play (based on the wiki summary at least)

Othello:

26 adaptations, oldest from 1906, most recent from 2024, 'Athhoi', Indian adaptation, based on the wiki it seems to follow the main plot points fairly well

Pericles:

1 adaptation, 1984, BBC TV adaptation

Richard II:

9 adaptations, oldest from 1960, most recent from 2012, The Hollow Crown series

Richard III:

19 adaptations, oldest from 1911, most recent from 2022, 'The Lost King', seems to be more about someone who's obsessed with Richard III than the shakespeare play itself

Romeo and Juliet:

51 adaptations, oldest from 1900, most recent from 2021, West Side Story reboot

Taming of the Shrew:

23 adaptations, oldest from 1908, most recent from 2008, 'Frivolous Wife,' a Korean adaptations, wiki summary doesn't resemble anything from the original plot, to the point where I'm not sure why it's listed here. (I tried looking at summaries on different sites to understand what makes this a Taming of the Shrew adaptation, but it almost seems like the exact opposite of TotS. "spoiled girl who could have any guy she wants" is the opposite of Katherine, "awkward and shy guy" is the opposite of Petruchio, there's no taming and no shrew)

The Tempest:

17 adaptations, oldest from 1911, most recent from 2020, 'Shakespeare's Shitstorm', mad scientist AU, horror-comedy musical, seems like it's got a lot going on in general

Timon of Athens:

2 adaptations, oldest from 1973, most recent from 1981, BBC TV adaptation

Titus Andronicus:

3 adaptations, oldest from 1985, most recent from 2017, 'The Hungry,' modern-day AU set in New Delhi (no summary listed on the wiki, the only summary I could finds makes it seem like it's Titus Andronicus from Tamora's pov, so congrats to this one for being the adaptation I most wanna watch)

Troilus and Cressida:

2 adaptations, oldest form 1954, most recent from 1981, BBC TV adaptation

Twelfth Night:

13 adaptations, oldest from 1910, most recent from 2013, filmed Globe production, all-male cast in an original practice production

Two Gentlemen of Verona:

2 adaptations, oldest from 1931, most recent from 1983, BBC TV adaptation

The Winter's Tale:

4 adaptations, oldest from 1910, most recent from 1999, filmed version of a RSC production