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King Henry IV, Part 1 | William Shakespeare

This is the synopsis of Part 1 in my copy of Part 2, just in case anyone needs it or wants it. Hopefully it hasn‘t stretched the limits of cell phone screens too badly for those without access to a tablet.
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa I could read it fine on my cell phone. Thanks, it was a perfect summary. 6y

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TheBookHippie I just watched the PBS special of Henry the 8th castle ....just to confuse things 🤣🤣🤣 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie 🤣😂🤣 what were you thinking?! 😂🤣😂 You officially have way too many Henries in your head now. 🤣😂🤣 ... actually that sounds really interesting. I may have to look that up. 😏 6y

GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa oh good. I checked it on my phone, but then I realised that smart phone screens come in all sorts of sizes so I was just hoping it was readable. I was hoping it would help get everyone ready to start the new play this week sometime. 6y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics Netflix 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie 💙💙💙 bless you for documentary recs!!! 6y

TheBookHippie Insomnia🤣 I watched that and Chatsworth and Empire of the Tsars!!! I now want to cook in all the places !!! (edited) 6y

Lcsmcat 👍🏻 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie oh I have empire of the tsars in my queue. Was it good? 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie oh wow all three of those are in my queue!!! 6y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics I love all things Russian Tsar history 🤣 so seeing it all was fun. 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I guess I‘m most interested in Tsarist history where it ends. For some reason I was deeply drawn to Alexi Romanov in freshman world history back in high school. My teacher didn‘t understand why I needed/wanted/knew more about him other than his hemophilia. I was supposed to do pictures to remind me of each of a set of people and he was one of them. I wanted to do a horse and a gun since we was into military stuff... 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie but he insisted I just do a bloody crown. I was very upset. I still didn‘t know I was a historian at that stage, but I guess it was one of the early signs. 🤣😂🤣 I figured I should probably know more of the history than that, especially since all the European royal families are related anyway. Hell, Elizabeth II and Prince Philip are second cousins. No wonder Prince Charles has such huge ears. Philip doesn‘t have them. 🤣😂🤣 (edited) 6y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics I was fascinated with Grand Dutchess Maria I heard she had a diary!!! (As a child) (edited) 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie wasn‘t that one of Alexi‘s older sisters? He certainly had a lot of them as I recall. 6y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics yup!!! 4 Tatiana Anastasia Olga Maria .. 6y

batsy Thanks! I know I just finished it recently but I'll never not need a recap for the history plays 😂 6y

GingerAntics @batsy I wish there was one of these nice, single paragraph synopses for every play. It would make life so much easier. 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I‘m so excited I actually recognised that correctly. It probably been (amazingly) 18-19 years since I studied the Romanov‘s. 6y

Gezemice Thanks! I am reading Wars of the Roses, inspired by the play. Shakespeare got the main things right, but there was quite a bit of artistic license, of course. Hotspur‘s wife was Elizabeth, not Kate, and he was older even than Henry IV, so he would not have regarded Hotspur his son. Some other details, too. But overall quite historically accurate. 6y

GingerAntics @Gezemice the intro to my edition of part 1 covered a lot of that. Shakes is really good at keeping the history in place and only changing what he needs to change to make his narrative work. He does quite an elegant job of it I think. His original audiences would have known this history as a matter of course, or their own national mythology almost, so it makes sense that he stuck closely to the history. 6y

wordzie Thank you for that! 😁 i didn't start with you guys and I was behind so that threw me off a bit. But i do plan to read part two with you guys. Thx a bunch for not dumping me!! 🙌😘 6y

GingerAntics @wordzie it‘s all good. I‘m not sure we‘ve ever dumped anyone. Admittedly I wasn‘t here for the first two plays, but we were a much smaller group back then. I think we had one person say they didn‘t want to do it anymore. Other than that, yeah, you can pop in and out as you want. 6y

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