Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

[ayahuatl_artist]

I survived the Histories Cycle! :-D Although unlike my first assumption that it would be 'binge-watching Shakespeare', it was more like 'Shakespeare boot camp'. There was a play at 10:30, a play at 3:00, and a play at 7:30, and they were all either three hours and ten minutes (twenty-minute intermission) or three hours and twenty minutes. 'Twas a

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[happy_myaow]

Somehow the fact that you tagged this 'shakespeare withdrawal' is a little bit odd. That's a LOT of Shakespeare!

So, does the RSC also go for pseudo-medieval in everything that they do? (Except for Richard III, though I'd never heard about the Richard III=Nazi Germany relation until now.) Har har, our tackiness is not alone.

[ayahuatl_artist]

Well, I'd just like to make it clear that 'RSC Medieval' is REALLY, really different than our Pseudo Medieval. *cough*

Not that that needed so much emphasis...

A lot of times they do. Or else a sort of Pseudo-something that seems to defy time periods. I bought a good book of their Complete Works Festival 'yearbook' and it gives a good idea. They do a few crazy things, a few authentic, a few real Elizabethan, but mostly pseudo medieval/something else. It works well for them. Better than pseudo-nazi anyway. :-)

No, I kid you not! Shakespeare withdrawal. It's painful.

[ethelflaed]

In the Politics Aristotle actually addresses just this very problem. It being Aristotle, any summary is going to do his thought injustice, but basically. . . . The best government is rule by one excellent (or virtuous man) but almost just as good is rule by many excellent men (aristocracy), and if neither can be had then democracy (in its purest sense) is best.

However, kingship and democracy tend to degenerate into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, so what's best for most cities is the corrupted/degenerate form of democracy, which he calls polity. This is similar to what we would call a republic.

So while true kingship is best, it's not usually possible; while aristocracy is also good, it's also difficult to achieve; and so polity, for most cities, is the best of all probable options.

. . . .

Shakespeare! Right, Shakespeare.

Eh, don't sell Henry V short. I think it's less about England vs. France than it is about Hal and whether or not he can really be a king. His father's dead, he had to cut himself off from Falstaff, nobody

[ayahuatl_artist]

It is a great relief to me that Aristotle was not wrong. This works wonders on restoring my shattered world view

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