Recently Read: Richard II
Shakespeare. Shakespeare! Sorry, that was a bit of a silly start, but yes, I've recently read Richard II. A great play. It didn't really add much in regard my musings on Elizabeth I, but it was a good read. I don't want to write too much, so I won't review it in great detail. The character of Richard II is so strange I'll have to comment on that though. He's a bad king, who's let his kingdom fall into ruin, and he's also pathetic. A sissy, prima donna type of man. Sort of more how I'd imagine Charles I to be than Elizabeth I. However ..he's also incredibly poetic. Of course, Shakespeare's writing his words, but still, it's an odd thing to witness. Such beautiful words coming from so weakened a man. Snakes in my heart-blood warmed, that sting my heart! Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas! It creates a real balance, where the sacred sense of overthrowing a king ( Bolingbroke , later Henry IV, takes his crown) is expressed, even...
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