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For the prompt "Coriolanus Volumina - Mother knows best."
A short piece wherein Volumnia is facing labor troubles when giving birth to Caius Marcius.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
For the prompt "Coriolanus Volumina - Mother knows best."
A short piece wherein Volumnia is facing labor troubles when giving birth to Caius Marcius.
Words: 754
Seminar: How to Not Die [HTND 107], headed by professors Benvolio and Horatio, please consult your admissions counselor for seating availability.
My prompt for the Bard’s Birthday Challenge, which was for ladyofshalott77, was “Richard II in a modern setting.” Somehow, I ended up writing about Middle Eastern dictators and pan-Arab socialism. I hope that’s OK. There’s absolutely no mpreg.
I hope to get another chapter up before the end of the gifting period.
St. David's Day is on Sunday! Grab a leek and celebrate with Fluellen. (Note: Scallions make good miniature leeks.)
This coming Sunday, the first of March, is St. David's Day! Poor old St. David doesn't get nearly as much international acclaim and love as his hard-drinking Irish counterpart does, but among Shakespearean circles his feast day is heralded for primarily one reason. And that reason is... THE LEEK.
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant Hapus! (I'm only 1/32nd Welsh, so my pronunciation is almost certainly wrong...)
so i was planning on doing this stupid post that cast henry v with tennis players but only got as far as a young andre agassi as dauphin and couldn't stop cackling to myself.
i'm so sorry.
Here is my contribution. Not a native speaker but I worked hard to get my A level French and will leap at any opportunity to put it to use. :)
For the Henry V French scenes:
III.iv: The Lesson / V.ii: Kiss Me Kate
I'm going to go ahead and point out that my experience with French has been three years of high school and a year of college, so I'm definitely not a native speaker. You could probably use me as a reference for how Hal would speak his French, actually.
Though, I will point out that in V.ii, the bit about French ladies not kissing before marriage could actually be a language pun. Though I'm not sure whether or not "baiser" had the same meaning in Shakey's time as it does now, but "baiser" now means "to fuck", which makes things really complicated since a kiss is "la bise" or "le bisou" and you can "baiser la main" which does in fact mean to kiss a hand. I'm pretty sure the Shakespearean definition would've been baiser as kiss, but I think it's funnier to imagine that the switch to baiser as fuck has already happened at the time of this text because it adds all sorts of lovely double entendres.
Also definitely don't go by the accent cues in the text; that's nothing like a French accent.