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part3 #HenryVI_2025 III,2
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Synopsis:
King Edward, while hearing Lady Greyโs petition for her dead husbandโs land, decides he wants her for his mistress; she refuses. He then asks her to become his queen, to the chagrin of Richard and Clarence. News comes of Henryโs capture.
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Option A it is (Richard III, John, Henry VIII).
Also, it makes sense to read King John who stood up to papal tyranny before Henry VIII flexed his muscles.
#henryvi_2025 I just read the Bhagavad Gita which is part of a story of a dynastic struggle which cousins should have the throne. Very similar to HVI. It feels eerie when ones reading coincidentally matches. Its like a sign.
#HenryVI_2025. I canโt believe Margaret gets to just go home. Everyone dies and she lives on! ๐คฌ
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KING EDWARD IV โNow am I seated as my soul delights, Having my countryโs peace and brothersโ loves.โ
V, 6. Shakesp breaking new ground here? Explaining Gloster's twistedness from his grim birth and his mother's reaction. Love that Shaksp cared how villains are made and love this performance of Ian Holm's. Evil is always more interesting in drama than good. #henryvi_2025 youtube.com/clip/UgkxhNw...
#henryvi_2025 King Henry and the prince his son are gone.
Clarence, thy turn is next, and then the rest, ๐ฉ
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King Henry VI:
Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain,
And, yet brought forth less than a mother's hope,
To wit, an indigested and deformed lump,
Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree.
Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,
To signify thou camest to bite the world:
โCome hither, Bess, and let me kiss my boyโ
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โSee how my sword weeps for the poor kingโs death!โ
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GLOUCESTER.
And not in me: I am myself alone.
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Clarence, thy turn is next, and then the rest,
Counting myself but bad till I be best.
I'll throw thy body in another room
And triumph, Henry, in thy day of gloom.
Part 3, Act V s6 #HenryVI_2025 Richard reveals himself, Edward apprehensive. (1/2)
Gloucester
See how my sword weeps for the poor Kingโs death!
O, may such purple tears be always shed
From those that wish the downfall of our house!
If any spark of life be yet remaining,
Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee to thither:
(Stabs him again)
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Pt3, Act V s6 (63-68)
#HenryVI_2025 Day 86, 6/15- Part 3, Act V s6 and s7
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Setting: The Tower of London
GLOUCESTER. Good day, my lord. What, at your book so hard?
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The King's Private Chapel in The Wakefield Tower at the Tower of London. The chapel is associated with Henry VI who was supposedly murdered while at prayer in the chapel in 1471. (Historic Royal Palaces)
KING HENRY
So flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf;
So first the harmless sheep doth yield his fleece,
And next his throat unto the butcher's knife.
William Shakespeare
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part3 V,6 (7-9)
โI am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.โ
John 10:11
V, 7. Must end in Lego to dispel the bileish taste of "re-purchased" victory by a two-term pretender. Edward played by Professor Frink, Queen Bess is Selma, Marge's sister, I think. Cute baby! And so thus endeth #henryvi_2025 3 Henry VI. youtube.com/clip/UgkxLE0...
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Queen Margaret:
Where is that devil's butcher,
Hard-favour'd Richard? Richard, where art thou?
Thou art not here: murder is thy alms-deed;
Petitioners for blood thou ne'er put'st back.
(5.5.83-86)
#HenryVI_2025 Day 85, 6/14- Part 3, Act V s5
(Sorry for the late post, was in San Diego moving a kid back for the summer! (Oh, my achin' back....))
โO, kill me too!โ
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King Edward
Now here a period of tumultuous broils.
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Pt3, Act V s5 (line 1)
There then and here now.
#henryVI_2025 So the dang queen gets to live? She started this thing. Ok maybe not exactly started but she didnโt help things. Prince Edward was 17. ๐ฉ
V.5 - couldn't resist sharing this 2nd clip from BBC/RSC War of the Roses (1965.) Ian Holm conveying Gloster's eerie avidity in just a few seconds. His face! All is known. #henryvi_2025 youtube.com/clip/Ugkxvu-...
V. 5 - a mother's grief. Can't imagine a better performance of Queen Margaret and her dead boy than Dame Peggy Ashcroft's. short clip. #henryvi_2025 youtube.com/clip/Ugkx0GH...
V.5 - for some reason this scene the most violent to me. Contagious brutality with relish. #henryvi_2025
QUEEN MARGARET
But if you ever chance to have a child,
Look in his youth to have him so cut off
As, deathsmen, you have rid this sweet young prince!
William Shakespeare
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part3 V,5 (63-65)
QUEEN MARGARET.
My tears gainsay, for every word I speak,
Ye see I drink the water of my eye.
Therefore no more but this: Henry, your sovereign,
Is prisoner to the foe, his state usurped
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You fight in justice.
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Queen Margaret
We will not from the helm to sit and weep,
But keep our course, though the rough wind say no,
From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wrack.
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Pt3, Act V s4 (22-24)
#HenryVI_2025 Day 84, 6/13- Part 3, Act V s4
Near Tewksbury, in Gloucestershire.
QUEEN MARGARET.
Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss,
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
The cable broke, the holding-anchor lost,
And half our sailors swallowed in the flood?