#HenryVI_2025 Week 6, Part 2 starts Apr. 24th-
The querulous group continues to bicker about the mild-mannered, reasonable-seeming King Henry VI, as they return to London. #Shakespeare #Henriad

#HenryV_2024 Week 1 will begin Nov. 25th -
This play has become synonymous with English patriotism; it gave us the famous line "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers." (RSC, Introduction to "The Life of Henry the Fifth.") #Shakespeare2024 #Henriad #Trilogy #Hal

A few of us are reading #Henriad - currently on #HenryIVpart2 Act IV. To be followed by #HenryV_2024 and possibly #RichardII_2024 . The parallels with real life have been fascinating & depressing. #Shakespeare2024

#HenryIVpart2 Day 11, 11/7- Act III s.2 to line 86 "Shallow: Where's Shadow?" #shakespeare #Henriad #ShallowAndShadow

#HenryIVpart2 Day 5, 11/1- Act II s.1.
"Master Fang, have you entered the action?" #Shakespeare #HenryIV #Henriad

#HenryIVpart2 Day 3, 10/30- Act I s.2.
"(Falstaff) Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor to my water?
(Page) He said, sir, the water itself was good healthy water but, for the part that owed it, he might have more diseases than he knew for."
[owed= owned] #Shakespeare #Henriad 📚

#HenryIVpart2 begins Oct. 28th - hope you can join us! About a scene per day in this slow read. #Shakespeare #SlowRead #Shakespeare2024 #Henriad

Hello #HenryIVpart1 readers- we'll start #HenryIVpart2 on Oct. 28th.
Thoughts on whether to follow that with Henry V or a comedy?
#Shakespeare #Shakespeare2024 #Henriad