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For me, morning synchronicity. #anthonypowelltogether and #kingjohn_2025 A society’s danger is less outside evil than the actions of silliness, ignorance, irony masquerading as power. Long live the Bastard!
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I liked Shakespeare's King John much more than I thought I would. I read that it was one of the least popular and least performed plays.
I wanted to find a performance on YouTube but all of them have such bad sound quality that it's impossible to understand.
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“Within me is a hell; and there the poison
Is, as a fiend, confin’d to tyrannize
On unreprievable condemned blood.”
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PRINCE HENRY:
“Even so must I run on, and even so stop.
What surety of the world, what hope, what stay,
When this was now a king, and now is clay?”
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www.lovebritishhistory.co.uk/2023/02/10-f...
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KING JOHN.
I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen
Upon a parchment, and against this fire
Do I shrink up.
Act V s7 #KingJohn_2025 Such imagery- I may have to re-read this play in a few years.
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Death scene. One of four scenes, first Shakesp film 1899, from the lavish Herbert Beerbohm Tree production. Tree is John. Prince Henry, to his right, is actress Dora Senior. #kingjohn_2025 youtu.be/7lWn99STB1o?...
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#KingJohn_2025 Day 27, 9/13- Act V s7
Thanks for reading together! #HenryVIII_2025 starts 9/17 ⚜️
England, the garden of Swinstead Abbey.
PRINCE HENRY.
It is too late: the life of all his blood
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Kupfer von Hendrick Goltzius 1589 Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum
PRINCE HENRY
I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
His soul and body to their lasting rest.
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V,7,21-24
Arden, London, 1951
Phaeton's Sisters Changed Into Poplars, Cygnus Into a Swan
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Bast.
Brief, then, what’s the news?
Hubert
O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
Black, fearful, comfortless and horrible.
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Act V s6 (18-20)
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BAST.
Withhold thine indignation, mighty heaven,
And tempt us not to bear above our power.
Act V s6 #KingJohn_2025 #TheEnd is near as the clergy takes revenge upon the excommunicated, weak English king.
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#KingJohn_2025 Day 26, 9/12- Act V s5 and s6
s5. England, the French Camp.
LEWIS / Dauphin.
The sun of heaven, methought, was loath to set
s6. England, not far from Swinstead Abbey.
HUBERT.
Who's there? Speak, ho! Speak quickly, or I shoot.
BAST.
A friend. What art thou?
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HUBERT
thou and endless night
Have done me shame: brave soldier, pardon me,
That any accent breaking from thy tongue
Should 'scape the true acquaintance of mine ear.
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V,6,12-15
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“What in the world should make me now deceive,
Since I must lose the use of all deceit?
Why should I then be false, since it is true
That I must die here, and live hence by truth?”
Honorable death
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#KingJohn_2025 Day 25, 9/11- Act V s3 and s4
* Remembrance of 9/11 (U.S.)
s3
KING JOHN. How goes the day with us? O, tell me, Hubert.
s4
SALISBURY. I did not think the kings so stored with friends.
PEMBROKE. Up once again: put spirit in the French:
If they miscarry, we miscarry too.
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V, 4
But even this night, — whose black contagious breath
Already smokes about the burning crest
Of the old, feeble, and day-wearied sun—
Exquisite. And how I feel in my own time. #kingjohn_2025
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SALISBURY
And like a bated and retired floot,
Leaving our rankness and irregular course,
Stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlook'd,
And calmly run on in obedience
Even to our ocean, to our great King John.
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V,4,53-57
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“…when I saw it [King John] acted, what with its intrigues and doublecrossings, non-aggression pacts, quislings, people changing sides in the middle of a battle, and what-not, it seemed to me extraordinarily up to date."
George Orwell, 1942
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The sandbanks of the Goodwin Sands, “a few miles off the Kent coast at Deal, contain more than 2,000 wrecks”
MESSENGER:
“Be of good comfort; for the great supply,
That was expected by the Dauphin here,
Are wrack'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands…”
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“For your own ladies, and pale-visag’d maids,
Like Amazons, come tripping after drums;
Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change,
Their neelds to lances, and their gentle hearts
To fierce and bloody inclination.”
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Lewis
We hold our time too precious to be spent
With such a brabbler.
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Act V s3 (161-162)
brabble = argue over petty things
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BAST.
Indeed your drums, being beaten, will cry out;
And so shall you, being beaten: do but start
And echo with the clamour of thy drum
And even at hand a drum is ready brace
That shall reverberate all as loud as thine.
Act V s2 #KingJohn_2025 To the Dauphin Lewis.
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#KingJohn_2025 Day 24, 9/10- Act V s2 from line 119 "BAST. According to the fair play of the world" to end of scene, "BAST. And thou shalt find it, dauphin, do not doubt. [Exeunt]"
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V,2,151-153
And you degenerate, you ingrate revolts,
You bloody Neroes, ripping up the womb
Of your dear mother England, blush for shame
Agrippine
gravé par Stefano della Bella
1698
Louvre
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“Hail, noble prince of France!
The next is this,—King John hath reconcil’d
Himself to Rome”
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Salisbury
And is’t not pity, O my grieved friends,
That we, the sons and children of this isle,
Were born to see so sad an hour as this;
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Act V s2 (24-26)
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V, 2.
Me thinks this scene one of the very best examples of Shakesp’s rollicking, pirouetting language. (the metaphors!) Almost comical in light of such a grave topic of war. This play’s a winner in my book. #kingjohn_2025
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V, 2
Louis:
“Let me wipe off this honourable dew
That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks…”
And contemporary writers are commanded to eschew adverbs! Shakesp’s are the best. #kingjohn_2025
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LEWIS
Am I Rome's slave?
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V,2,97
The Dauphin’s Camp at St. Edmunds Bury
Digitalcollection Folger
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