A few more examples of the generally unsettling illustrations:

Edward II (with mini-Gaveston)

James I (I opened the book to this one when I got it and nearly dropped it on the floor)

Williamanmary (perhaps the most terrifying of all)

Edward VIII (because it's not only pre-constitutional-monarchy monarchs who are scary)

Also, anent this book, lnhammer ( Read more... )

I am back from my trip, and I bring more poetry. This one's pretty crazy. And snarky.

Edward II and various people associated with him, incidentally, were a subject of longstanding interest to Drayton; besides these epistles, he also wrote Mortimeriados, later revised as The Barons' Wars, an epic on the topic, as well as a long poem called Piers ( Read more... )

I have had this debate with both my sister and jucundushomo recently, and I find their disagreement on the topic baffling.

NB that choices of icon and music do not necessarily indicate my opinion on The Obvious Right Answer.

Poll Lea

ETA: The poll title should be "Lea's Big Book of You-Know-What Poll," but it got screwed up in the coding. Blast.

ETA: commodorified, while we're ( Read more... )

Random excerpt from an old chat log, detailing the process of composition of the Woodstock ending we wrote a while back:

commodorified: Richard:
At my pleasure?
Lancaster:
At your pleasure or ours, it makes no matter;
Will you end as Edward your grandsire, full of years and renown,
Or as his father, full of --

commodorified: (infamy!)
angevin2: (swedish fish!)
angevin2: (anything ( Read more... )

This got linked at plantagenesta a while back and I hadn't really looked at it until someone on a bbs I visit occasionally mentioned that one of her diss texts is the 14th century romance of Richard the Lionheart, in which the title character at one point eats people's heads in gory detail, and I figured, well, I need to see this. And since the site it's from ( Read more... )

So I can tell I've definitely gotten hooked on Firefly because last night I had a very strange dream in which I was in Ann Arbor with the crew of Serenity fending off an attack by throngs of insane sorority girls. At the end of it it was just me and Mal and Kaylee and a whole lot of frightening bleached-blonde girls in low-riding black capri pants ( Read more... )

The world has become a slightly shinier place for me now that I know that this exists.

These make me happy too. But they don't make me laugh quite as hard.

commodorified sent me this link:

http://www.edwardii.com/

Guess what it is. Go on. ;)

I'm sure I'm not the only person who read that and started to think up wholly inappropriate ad campaigns.

Have just received a copy of the Stratford (Ontario) Festival brochure in the mail. This year, I have every intention of going, since they've got some stuff that looks terrific -- I'm particularly excited about Edward II (of course!) and Measure for Measure (which will feature Thom Marriott as the Duke and Jonathan Goad as Angelo... *drool*) And ( Read more... )

I've had Henry V on the brain all week, probably since I watched the ESC version on Monday, and it's one of the texts I ordered for my Intro to Lit class (I figure it'll be fun to teach -- if they're giving any thoughts to current events, it'll get them talking, I hope). For some reason, I have a weird urge to watch the Olivier version now, though ( Read more... )