review of 1 and 2 Henry IV, dir. Barbara Gaines, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 6/18/06

[angevin2]

Okay, so here it is. I have been geeking out about going to see this production for ages and ages (I found a post from a year ago a while back where I squeed about it, having seen the CST 2005-06 schedule), and I am probably just going to ramble a lot because I both loved it and had some things I have quibbles with, which is an inducement to

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[rysmiel]

"Why isn't all Shakespeare that good?"

I'm trying to remember how old zorinth was when he loudly announced "Macbeth's all right, but it's not a patch on Hamlet"; I think he was into double digits, but not by more than a year or so.

[ Did 1H4 for Inter Cert, seventeen years ago. So much came back during this review. Thank you. ]

[angevin2]

You're most welcome! My first encounter with it was in my high school Shakespeare class a decade ago, and I fell madly in love when asked by the teacher to read Hotspur during in-class scene work. ;)

"Macbeth's all right, but it's not a patch on Hamlet"

Heeee! Well, it isn't. ;)

Hotspur and Henry IV

[anonymous]

Not all the reviews of Stratford's Henry IV were negative towards Hotspur. See Robert Cushman's review from the National Post.

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