So in our copious free time, lareinenoire and I have been working on chipping out a timeline for Shakespeare's history plays and how the chronology stacks up against the actual events. She is doing the first tetralogy and I'm doing the second, which was clever of me because the second tetralogy is a lot less work, seeing as how the Henry IV plays in particular ( Read more... )

This has got to be one of the more awesome wiki categories out there.

(Beth is working on a fic in which the Princes in the Tower get sent back in time by a time-traveling Richard III and Henry VII [it's a very complicated plot] and thus grow up to become Edward IV, and Richard III himself. The dynastic implications are staggering.)

Also, here, ( Read more... )

Beth just sent me this rather alarming quote from an otherwise reputable article in a reputable journal (emphasis mine):
"Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature," Richard recreates the world around him in his own twisted image in parody of divine creation. By ruining God's image, he spitefully attempts to pay back the Maker of his own misshapen ( Read more... )