[FICATHON] Game of Roses, for lareinenoire

[angevin2]

Title: Game of Roses
Author: mirabehn
Play: Henry VI part iii/Richard III
Recipient: lareinenoire
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Elizabeth Woodville, others
Warnings: none
Rating: PG
Notes: Thank-you to Puck for betaing, and apologies for the lateness!
Summary: Elizabeth looks back.

Comments

[gileonnen]

I liked this one very, very much--how informed it was by history, especially. Elizabeth is a canny woman, the kind of brilliant that her time allowed her to be; you did her and your source material justice. Great work!

[lareinenoire]

Oh, my goodness, I love absolutely everything about this. How you weaved together history and Shakespeare and the Mirror for Magistrates, and it makes me so very, very happy. This bit was particularly classic:

(with the notable exception of pretty Jane Shore, she remembered, and she also remembered other things about Jane Shore which she would one day tell to her final confessor, but not yet, not yet)

We know everyone and their mother wants to sleep with Jane Shore. ;)

I also love that you actually gave Edward and Elizabeth a relationship, even though she acknowledges that Richard is her equal (and he really is). Thank you so much for this.

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[angevin2]

Jane Shore is teh sex. :D

[17catherines]

This is stunning. Just how I see Elizabeth, too.

[yvesilena]

Oh, freaking brilliant, brought a tear to my eye at the end actually :)

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[tree_and_leaf]

This is absolutely delightful; Elizabeth is awesome, and I love the mixture of Shakespeare and history.