Shakespeare quest to read all the plays continues- hope you'll join my mom & me with King Lear on Oct. 20, 2025!
#KingLear_2025 #HenryVIII_2025 #Shakespeare #Plays #SlowRead #Tragedies #Daughters
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discovered in a field by a metal detectorist 2019. The Tudor Heart. A gift to Katherine from Henry. #henryviii_2025 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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If I learned anything from #HenryVIII_2025, it's that succession is everything. (At least to a King who accepts that he'll someday die. Not like a certain modern King.) Succession is a commandment of God, whether Catholic or Protestant. At all costs leave your ducks in a row. 🧵1
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V, epilogue. I love this:
"All the expected good we're like to hear / For this play at this time, is only in / The merciful construction of good women; / For such a one we show'd 'em."
The women really make this play, although "the one" not as much and "the other one." #henryviii_2025
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Cranmer
Truth shall nurse her,
Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her.
She shall be loved and feared. Her own shall bless her;
Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn,
And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her.
[Elizabeth]
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Act V s5 (28-32)
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#HenryVIII_2025 Day 29, 10/15- Act V s4
GARTER.
Heaven, from thy endless goodness, send prosperous life, long, and every happy, to the high and mighty Princess of England, Elizabeth.
Thanks for reading together & hope to see everyone for #KingLear_2025 beginning Oct. 20th, Monday!
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“Nor shall this peace sleep with her: but as when…”
This and the following 17 lines are generally conjectured to be an interpolation, made at some revival of the play, after the accession of King James.
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“Lead the way, lords;—
Ye must all see the Queen, and she must thank ye,
She will be sick else. This day, no man think
H’as business at his house; for all shall stay:
This little one shall make it holiday.”
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“My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal:
I thank ye heartily; so shall this lady,
When she has so much English.”
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Thank you for the 👌 guiding through #HenryVIII_2025 — and 🙏🏻 to all readers!
A comment from Frank Günther:
„Something's wrong with the text. Linguistically, it seems strangely subdued, rarely expressive, poetically mostly shallow, and lacking in passion. To put it
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Cranmer
Saba was never
More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue
Than this pure soul shall be.
William Shakespeare
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V,4,23-25
Reverend Matthew Peters (1742-1814)
King Henry VIII. Act V, Scene IV.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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did some research on Henry VIII play. all academics discussing religion, state, royalty, Elizabeth etc. I'd love to read a dramatist's view. V, 4 such a brilliant scene. The cause of the rabble not revealed up front. The common man dialect. The offstage mob. just brilliant. #henryviii_2025
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CHAMBERLAIN.
There's a trim rabble let in: are all those
Your faithful friends o'th'suburbs? We shall have
Great store of room, no doubt, left for the ladies,
When they pass back from the christening!
Act V s3 #HenryVIII_2025 Expecting lots o' ladies again. Anne's popular with the common women...?
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#HenryVIII_2025 Day 28, 10/14- Act V s3
(penultimate day!)
Location. By a gate of the royal court, London.
PORTER. You'll leave your noise anon, ye rascals: do you take the court for Paris Garden?
* Paris Garden: bear-baiting arena on London's Bankside, near the Globe theatre
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PORTER
How got they in, and be hang'd?
MAN
Alas I know not, how gets the tide in?
William Shakespeare
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V,3,16-17
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“You’ll leave your noise anon, ye rascals: do you take the court for Parish-garden?”
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#HenryVIII_2025 Day 27, 10/13- Act V s2 from 154 "CRANMER. For me?" to end of scene,
KING HENRY VIII.
As I have made ye one, lords, one remain:
So I grow stronger, you more honour gain.
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#HenryVIII_2025 I'm kinda glad that King Lear's next as it was a later play too (both were performed during the reign of King James of England & Scotland).
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Cromwell:
My Lord of Winchester, you are a little,
By your good favour, too sharp; men so noble,
However faulty, yet should find respect
For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty
To load a falling man.
(V.2.107-111) - Arden 3rd
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Cranmer
My good lords, hitherto, in all the progress
Both of my life and office, I have laboured,
And with no little study, that my teaching
And the strong course of my authority
Might go one way, and safely; and the end
Was ever to do well:
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Act V s3 (32-37)
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GARDINER.
My noble lords, for those that tame wild horses
Pace 'em not in their hands to make 'em gentle,
But stop their mouths with stubborn bits and spur 'em
Till they obey the manage.
Act V s2 #HenryVIII_2025 Common stock like Wolsey, Cranmer, Cromwell....
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#HenryVIII_2025 Day 26, 10/12- Act V s2 to line 153 "GARDINER. Let some o'th'guard be ready there. [Enter Guard]"
CRANMER. I hope I am not too late, and yet the gentleman
That was sent to me from the council prayed me
To make great haste. All fast? What means this? Ho!
Who waits there?
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KING
You play the spaniel,
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me;
But whatsoe'er thou tak'st me for, I'm sure
Thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody.
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V,2,160-163
James Ward
1769-1859
Portrait of Dash, a Favourite Spaniel, the Property of Lady Frances Vane-Tempest
1819
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King Henry VIII:
Your enemies are many, and not small; their practises
Must bear the same proportion
(V.1.161-162)
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“Sir, your queen
Desires your visitation, and to be
Acquainted with this stranger; ‘tis as like you
As cherry is to cherry.”
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KING HENRY VIII.
You take a precipice for no leap of danger,
And woo your own destruction.
CRANMER.
God and your majesty
Protect mine innocence, or I fall into
The trap is laid for me.
Act V s1 #HenryVIII_2025 Former Oxford don, allied with Wolsey, in a verbal dance to live. #Cranmer #Canterbury
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#HenryVIII_2025 Day 25, 10/11- Act V s1 from line 93 "KING HENRY VIII. Well, sir, what follows?" to end of scene,
OLD LADY.
Said I for this, the girl was like to Him? I'll
Have more, or else unsay't: and now, while 'tis hot,
I'll put it to the issue.
[Exeunt Old Lady with Lowell]
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OLD LADY
the God of heaven
Both now and ever bless her: 'tis a girl
Promises boys hereafter.
William Shakespeare
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V,1,164-166
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