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angevin2

hooray 1960s cover art

Aug 26, 2007 19:39

Today's Rather Unfortunate Shakespeare Cover Art comes from the 1962 Folger edition of Richard II, which I acquired at a ginormous used book sale because, why not, right, and also some student years ago annotated the hell out of it in a Kantorowiczy Tillyardy fashion which is really rather charming, in this context ( Read more... )

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jaydeyn_sitari August 27 2007, 12:49:56 UTC

Hee! Yes, yes he does!

And now I'm curious about the annotations. And what a Kantorowiczy Tillyardy fashion would entail.

:)
Jaydeyn

angevin2 August 27 2007, 20:23:24 UTC

It's a lot of "This indicates that Richard is not a man of action" and "This is all about a well-ordered state" and "This is the Elizabethan theory of kingship" stuff.

Also we learn that Richard has lost his suck powers. Poor Richard.

a_t_rain August 27 2007, 14:04:24 UTC

I'm sure I've probably told you about the dream I had once where I discovered the original manuscripts of a bunch of Shakespeare plays and it turned out that Severus Snape was a character in all of them (he had to be cut out because he kept mixing antidotes for the people who got poisoned and giving everybody who was about to make a Tragic Mistake blistering but extremely good advice), but this seems an apposite time to mention it again.

angevin2 August 27 2007, 20:23:41 UTC

That is the most awesome thing ever.

margi_lynn August 30 2007, 17:58:39 UTC

This now means I have a plot bunny for something involving Richard II and Snape. Damn you!

Maybe Snape as Richard II or related? Or maybe Snape as reincarnated!Richard?

What does it say about me that I like the last best? :-)

angevin2 August 30 2007, 18:16:59 UTC

I don't know, but -- *encourages* ;)