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Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare (now: #ProdigalPrince); editing (2GV for Arden, ongoing), introducing (R&J, Cambridge, 2023), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford, 2025) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialHenry: maybe Hotspur & Hal were switched at birth? #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare
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Richard Coyle as King Henry in Player Kings 2024: immaculate dress uniform (Marshal of the Royal Air Force) right down to the medals, a year after the coronation of Charles III.
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialZach COME DOWN we need you for Arden and everything else
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialthat's brilliant! (and I mean, is Hal even turning up to lectures? I think not)
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialnever knowingly underwhimsied
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialblackberries whose dreams all came true...
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialKing Henry: Hotspur is brilliant; my son Harry, though? Not so much #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare
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John Gielgud as King Henry in Chimes at Midnight (1965), the combined Henry IV dir. Orson Welles. It creaks, now, but the cinematography is amazing.
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialKing Henry: Hotspur's done well for himself; Westmorland: indeed #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare
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Poster for the 2005 @nationaltheatre.org.uk Henry IV: David Bradley (Henry, L), Michael Gambon (Falstaff, C) & Matthew Macfadyen (Hal, R). What about HOTSPUR?
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialI am indeed. It's the end of a chapter called 'Leather/Wool'. Many, many gloves. Pictures of gloves! And thank you!!
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialseeing it at the end of the month - really looking forward to it! (not least because Fisayo Akinade is one of my most favourites.)
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialOh I don't know the Kevin Kline (not so good on US productions). I only saw the Peake in the cinema but really liked it. ALL THE HAMLETS. (I saw 8 different versions last year, for reviewing purposes, truly it was the year of Hamlet.)
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialI hope you like it.... as I've just observed to Callan, still the occasion for startlement that there are readers.
@starcrossed2018.bsky.social😭Callan, you are very kind... I'm so pleased that you like it (and still, you know, amazed that people are reading it!)
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialI was sorry to see this. He seemed a near-permanent presence in the CUL Rare Books room when I was a grad and postdoc, an entire table commandeered for multiple Foxes and the necessary enormous cushions...
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialyou beat me to it!!
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialKing Henry: I know all this; HOTSPUR won #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare
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Another image from the Donmar Henry IV, dir. Phyllida Lloyd 2014. Jade Anouka (R) as Hotspur, Cynthia Erivo (!) as Douglas. (they join forces later, here sparring together) 📸Helen Maybanks
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialah, only just seeing these! congratulations!
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialthe sheet for burial is really common. Not impossibly a wedding sheet.
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialit's fabulous! (well it was in 2016!)
@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialPart of a trilogy with the same ensemble & the same frame, with Julius Caesar & Tempest, with the great Harriet Walter as Henry, Brutus, Prospero. A revival of Julius Caesar (with Walter!) currently in Stratford and touring schools:
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@starcrossed2018.bsky.socialWestmorland: big battle! don't know who won? #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare
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One of the most influential recent Henry IVs: dir. Phyllida Lloyd @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social, first in 2014, within the frame of a women's prison. Jade Anouka, centre, as HOTSPUR.
