#henry vi part 1

[thevelvetgoldmine]

TOM STURRIDGE as Henry VI

The Hollow Crown S02E01 - "Henry VI, Part 1"

[irate-iguana]

The promised sequel to my previous post:

If anyone wants to help me come up with drag names for these characters, please feel free!

[uwmspeccoll]

Shakespeare Weekend!

This week we present King Henry the Sixth: Part One, the first of the three part play, and is volume twelve of the thirty-seven volume The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, published by the Limited Editions Club (LEC) from 1939-1940. 

Shakespeare’s authorship of these plays has been in question for some time, researchers believed to have found the hand of at least six other playwrights within the text. Modern advances in computer software have allowed Oxford researchers to analyze and compare patterns in the writing styles and they have determined that the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) very likely co-authored the plays with Shakespeare. The plays were first acted in 1592. The second part was published anonymously in 1594, and the third part in 1595. All three parts were published in the folio of 1623. 

This volume is illustrated with lithographs by English artist Graham Sutherland (1903-1980). Sutherland approached book illustration a bit differently. Where other artists wanted to create images that do not distract from the text, and appear harmonious with the text on the page, Sutherland believed that too much attention being paid to creating works that agree with the page will result in “Making the illustration merely decorative, and drained from any personality...” On his own approach to his illustrations he writes:

“I believe that a good illustration translates a story into pictorial equivalents. It should not be either subservient to, or superior to, the story which the author has to tell, but parallel with it.”

The volume in the set was printed in an edition of 1950 copies at the Press of A. Colish, and each was illustrated by a different artist, but the unifying factor is that all volumes were designed by famed book and type designer Bruce Rogers and edited by the British theatre professional and Shakespeare specialist Herbert Farjeon. Our copy is number 1113, the number for long-standing LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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-Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

alright henry vi: house of lancaster (english shakespeare company) let’s go

thank you @shredsandpatches

[thelastofthebookworms]

The poll about the comedies has already ended but you'll find the tragedies in my 'shakespeare' tag / my pinned post.

I'll made a final poll with the winners for comedy, tragedy 1, tragedy 2 and history when we'll have the results

[creatediana]

There’s a lot on my head— namely, a head, like Marie Antoinette used to have— and King Charles (the First)— (the new one—whatever)— (I think he still has one, but it’s not in great shape).

But what of the mind? Never mind— but the body, it burns. And I lie in my bed looking at Joan of Arc in a BBC feature— condemned with a baby (or, bastard)— oh, Joan, or Jeanne, la Pucelle— a poor little maid that a poor little Bard suited up—in fine armor to slutshame. Oh well.

Oh well, well well well I’m not feeling these days but for movies and books that I gaze on. Praise God for recurring malaise and disease— I’ve been struck with for fifteen years now... quite a chunk of my life

when I’m just 24, and my grandmother’s baby— (my grandmother’s dead)— (but she wasn’t, before).

No, all four of my grandparents saw me grow up—as this wretch— little nine-year-old girl full of needles, I am— I continue to be in my hospital bed glued to the TV.

What integrity I must inspire in my elders— their wise niece and daughter a weakling, for now— (no, not now, but forever)— I take the remote and flip to cartoons.

I wrote poetry once— (I still do—in my head) (that thing I still have... despite) and I wrote it for years and I’m writing it now in force— in rebellion against the skin and the bones and the muscles, not moving without consequence—

but the mind— and the body!— being idle... I hate it. Even more than the pain, or the punishment I submit to— to claim Me my own over this, my fatigue— my war from some film like a period piece—

so. I fight for some king? Or for God? Heaven knows— but I’m stylishly dressed, eloquent, my last words and woes of my tragedy— (how nice that’d be)— find heroic catharsis for the audience to see...

but for Me? What of Me? Oh, that’s Sunday. Or not. Wait, it’s Friday?—They all look the same in my house. My garden’s no calendar, my dog’s not my boss, but my job is to live... but loss... all of this— losing years once again of my bright little life.

Nana’s sore little girl, I submit, put my pen down again.

“Chorus—pretend Me I’m buried.” - a free verse poem written 7/07/2023

[mybleedingboy]

free recordings of shakespeare plays

in alphabetical order for convenience (but pls use CTRL+F) disclaimer: i have not watched all of these.

all's well that ends well to julius caesar (part 1, here)

king john to the winter's tale (part 2, coming tomorrow maybe idk)

*login with public library card or university, italicized are audio recordings, ! means I don't want the video to get taken down so I didn't add it but search it up and you'll find a good production on a specific website...

All's Well That Ends Well

Shakespeare by the Sea (2013)

UC Davis Playing Shakespeare (2010)

BBC Television Shakespeare* or (1981)

Plainfield Little Theatre (2016)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Antony and Cleopatra !

Royal Shakespeare Company (1974)

Unbound Theatre (2019)

Shakespeare & Company (2018)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Greatest Audio Books (2013)

As You Like It

movie adapted by JM Barrie and Robert Cullen (1936)

The Public Theater of MN (2013)

Rice University (2019)

Oxford Theatre Guild (2020)

Shakespeare & Company (2014)

Battle Ground High School Drama Club (2017)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Greatest Audio Books (2015)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1978)

Comedy of Errors

Steam-Punk Performance (2014)

Shakespeare by the Sea (2019)

Shakespeare in the Park NZ (2007)

Coronado Playhouse (2021)

Highland Arts Theatre (2021)

Theatre Company of Saugus, pt. 2 (2023)

Shakespeare Network (2020)

Greatest Audio Books (2013)

BBC Movie* (1984)

Coriolanus !

Brussels Shakespeare Society (2017)

Movie (1964)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Cymbeline

Shakespeare by the Sea (2016)

Shakespeare & Company (2012)

Movie* (1984)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Hamlet ! (hint: Moriarty)

adapted and dir. Laurence Olivier (1948)

Abrahamse & Meyer Production (2015)

Bob Jones University (2020)

Broadway Production (1964)

starr. Maxine Peake (2015)

BLC Theatre (2013)

Hamlet as a Rock Opera (2007)

Radio Drama (2018?)

Studio Album star. 1964 Broadway cast (1964)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1980)

Royal Shakespeare Company* (2013)

Wooster Group Re-making* (?) (2012)

Henry IV, Part I

English Shakespeare Company (1990)

Brussels Shakespeare Society (adapted I and II, 2017)

TVO (1990)

Shakespeare & Company (2017)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1950)

Oakshot Press (2017)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)

H4* (Henry IV parts I and II in futuristic Los Angeles, 2012)

Henry IV, Part II

English Shakespeare Company (1990)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Oakshot Press (2017)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)

Henry V

Laurence Olivier (1944)

English Shakespeare Company (1990)

Barn Theatre (2020?)

St. Louis Shakespeare,pt. 2 (2011)

ASC Theatre Company (2022)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

AudioBookBuzz (2018)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1979)

Henry VI, Part I

Royal Shakespeare Company (parts I, II, and III, 1956)

English Shakespeare Company (1990)

Shakespeare by the Sea (2021)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)

Henry VI, Part II

English Shakespeare Company (1990)

ASC Theatre Camp (2020)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1954)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)

Henry VI, Part III

English Shakespeare Company (1990?)

Whitman College (1992)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1955)

(BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)

Henry VIII

Shakespeare Happy Hours (online, 2020)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1957)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)

Julius Caesar !

starr. Gielgud, dir. Stuart Burge (1970)

Festival Series (1960)

Flint Hills Shakespeare Festival (2016)

Shakespeare at Winedale (2018)

Acting for a Cause (2022)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Greatest AudioBooks (2013)

dir. Gregory Doran* (2012)

[do-you-know-this-play]

[pendantaudio]

The Pendant Shakespeare proudly presents: "Henry VI, part 1" chapter 7!

Dramaturgy by Morgan Z. Sowell, directed by Jeff Robinson!

Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Samsung Podcasts, and more!

[fivedayshakespeare]

9/25/2023-9/29/2023: Henry VI, Part 1

The project begins! With a play that isn't that great!

This play contains the origin of the Wars of the Roses and also involves England’s attempts to rule France. I've known about these things in a general sort of way, but never dug into the details. And now seems like a good time.

So...I know the Hundred Years' War was slightly over a hundred years long and it involved England in France. But...why?

Turns out the original excuse was that when Charles IV of France died in 1328, he had no convenient male heirs. So Edward III of England, who was his brother-in-law, declared himself king of France. Why not, right?

Incidentally, Edward III is also to blame for the Wars of the Roses, since he created the Houses of Lancaster and York. Nice going, Ed. It took a few hundred years, but you really lit a fuse that would end up smashing everything.

Anyway, Henry V actually conquered France, and then he died. And then Henry VI, Part 1 starts.

The French are weaselly cowards and the good English are bluff and shouty, which apparently makes this a primary document in the English conception of themselves. It certainly must reflect the popular understanding of the origins of the Wars of the Roses, although events are wildly compressed.

So from a cultural literacy standpoint, this was a very useful play to read. Hey, it's Joan of Ark! The Siege of Orleans! Plantagenet being restored to Duke of York!

The play is not that well written, I have to say. The rhymes are pretty simplistic. I am pleased to see that official Shakespearean critics say things like “so banal they must be non-Shakespearean”. Look at this action, as old Talbot tries to convince his son to leave before they both get killed:

TALBOT. Shall all thy mother’s hopes lie in one tomb? JOHN. Aye, rather than I’ll shame my mother’s womb.

TALBOT. Upon my blessing, I command thee go. JOHN. To fight I will, but not to fly the foe.

TALBOT. Part of thy father may be saved in thee. JOHN. No part of him but will be shame in me.

TALBOT. Thou never hadst renown, nor canst not lose it. JOHN. Yes, your renowned name: shall flight abuse it?

...yeah. I can see it being kind of snappy on stage, but it feels kind of plonking to me.

I read somewhere that it was considered “low art” to portray violence on stage, but that didn’t stop Shakespeare. There are a bunch of “alarum” and “excursion” scenes. Check this out, which happens in the middle of a scene:

[Excursions. Re-enter LA PUCELLE fighting with YORK. LA PUCELLE is taken. The FRENCH fly.]

La Puccelle is Joan of Ark. This feels like it should be a big, exciting action scene, of which this play is absolutely stuffed. Presumably the draw for the crowds of the time was the action, not the dialogue. Although it looks like this play has hardly ever been performed, so it may not have had much actual draw to begin with.

There is controversy about whether this was written before Parts 2 and 3 or after, but it seemed like a good play to start with.

Next up: Henry VI, Part 2

[princesskuragina]

The more I do theatre the more I become convinced that what makes good theatre and perhaps good acting is being a little bit of a freak and doing a weird gay thing with your friends

[britneyshakespeare]

i cannot stop thinking about henry vi part 2

[twodoorsnotone]

Just finished watching Two Gentlemen of Verona! I have now watched every Shakespeare play EXCEPT Richard II (I promised I'd watch with my friend 🙄) and As You Like It (want to try and watch it at the Globe) woooo

[alice-dyers-spouse]

Me reading Henry IV pt 1 and hyperfixating bad on hotspur all like: I am going to create a hotspur-centred story that is so homoerotic-