There was a short story called "Fire" that's a sort of sequel to The Winter Prince that was published at about the same time. It's in one fo the Writer's of the Future anthologies.
These sound appealing. I will add them to the ever-growing list.
And, yay love for The Once and Future King. I need to read that again, although I need to decide which version. (That sounds simple but I can agonize over decisions like that for ridiculous amounts of time.)
If memory serves, that's a chapter in The Sword in the Stone. Probably in both versions, but it might have only been in the revised one. (The first three volumes were revised when they were published as a single book, and the first volume had the most changes.) I don't think she's still living there in The Queen of Air and Darkness.
I did not know that about Colonel Cully! Of course I have never read a Jacobean play, nor seen one either that I can recall.
My icon is from the film version of The Revenger's Tragedy, directed by Alex Cox (Repo Man). The very last shot is horrendous and makes no sense, but the rest of the movie is great and extremely faithful to the satirical bugfuck bizarreness of the original play. Starring Christopher Eccleston (the Ninth Doctor Who) as Vindice, a creepy avenger who carries around the skull of his dead wife; Eddie Izzard, as a sexy sexy villain; and Derek Jacobi, as an evil Duke. Everyone dies and/or goes mad at the end. (This is not a spoiler for Jacobean drama.)
Most of Colonel Cully's dialogue is from The Duchess of Malfi, in which the Duchess's brother hires a hit man to off her for reasons which he is never quite able to articulate other than vague protestations of "honor," but seem to be sexual jealousy; there is a Cardinal who develops the delusion that he is a werewolf; the hit man, who reminds me a lot of George R. R. Martin's Sandor Clegane, sort of falls in love with the Duchess but that doesn't end well;
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But sometimes I think history is fantasy.
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But, oh, Telemakos, I love Telemakos.
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And, yay love for The Once and Future King. I need to read that again, although I need to decide which version. (That sounds simple but I can agonize over decisions like that for ridiculous amounts of time.)
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When I got to college, I was amazed to learn that nearly all of the mad hawk Colonel Cully's dialogue was taken from Jacobean plays.
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I did not know that about Colonel Cully! Of course I have never read a Jacobean play, nor seen one either that I can recall.
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My icon is from the film version of The Revenger's Tragedy, directed by Alex Cox (Repo Man). The very last shot is horrendous and makes no sense, but the rest of the movie is great and extremely faithful to the satirical bugfuck bizarreness of the original play. Starring Christopher Eccleston (the Ninth Doctor Who) as Vindice, a creepy avenger who carries around the skull of his dead wife; Eddie Izzard, as a sexy sexy villain; and Derek Jacobi, as an evil Duke. Everyone dies and/or goes mad at the end. (This is not a spoiler for Jacobean drama.)
Most of Colonel Cully's dialogue is from The Duchess of Malfi, in which the Duchess's brother hires a hit man to off her for reasons which he is never quite able to articulate other than vague protestations of "honor," but seem to be sexual jealousy; there is a Cardinal who develops the delusion that he is a werewolf; the hit man, who reminds me a lot of George R. R. Martin's Sandor Clegane, sort of falls in love with the Duchess but that doesn't end well; ( ... )
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