#and 2h4 (to me) is like. here's how hollow the world is after hotspur died and took chivalry and honour with him | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

suits-of-woe · 1 year

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you can tell i'm too deep into shakespeare studies because i've started developing a mental list of plays that are not good, not bad, but interestingly bad maybe on purpose in a way that makes them somehow loop back around to being good

#the two main ones at the moment being #all's well that ends well #and henry iv part 2 #listen all's well is bad at being a satisfying comedy but it's bad at that on PURPOSE. to me <3 #it's a comedy directed by female desire rather than male desire and helen is fighting tooth and nail not to let the genre break #despite doing things in a very unorthodox way #and bertram is trying soooooo hard to escape the ending but he cannot <3 #but does that make the ending happy? shakespeare voice idk man you decide #and 2h4 (to me) is like. here's how hollow the world is after hotspur died and took chivalry and honour with him #it's all just hollow carnivalesque parodies where there used to be heart #and in both of these cases i think that's really INTERESTING. even if the play isn't necessarily. good.#but i may just be too far into shakespeare loving territory where i'm like 'even the plays that are bad are good actually'#mine

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