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Anyone up for Shakespeare?

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Chris OConnor wrote:OK, we have 1 vote for Hamlet. Robert, maybe also give a 2nd choice.

Suzanne, do you have a 1st choice? How about a 2nd choice?

Geo?
Too late. I've already started reading Henry IV, Part I. Sorry.

Anyone wants to join in, the more the merrier.

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I forgot what was said about reading just one part of a multi-part play. Are you planning to read all parts?
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Chris, each play of the tetralogy stands on its own even if they are part of a larger narrative. I see no reason against starting with Henry IV, Part I, which chronicles Henry Bolingbroke, the king Henry IV, and his son, Hal, who will someday succeed his father and become Henry V—the fourth play in the tetralogy.

I know this may not be everyone's first choice, but then again most folks never indicated they even had a first choice. I don't think we have anything even close to consensus, and over the weekend, I picked up the book and just started reading. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Taylor has indicated that Henry IV was his first choice too, so hopefully he'll be reading it as well.

If you guys want to go through a formal voting procedure and read something else, I say go for it!
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Geo wrote:

Taylor has indicated that Henry IV was his first choice too, so hopefully he'll be reading it as well.

If you guys want to go through a formal voting procedure and read something else, I say go for it!
Thanks Geo, I wanted to do a re-read, but I did not want to discourage anybody else from joining in, so I was leaving room for other peoples choices.
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By the way, I just now figured out how to include a name with the quote bubble :bananadance:
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Taylor wrote:By the way, I just now figured out how to include a name with the quote bubble :bananadance:
If you click the "Quote" button, it does it all for you.
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Taylor wrote:
Geo wrote:

Taylor has indicated that Henry IV was his first choice too, so hopefully he'll be reading it as well.

If you guys want to go through a formal voting procedure and read something else, I say go for it!
Thanks Geo, I wanted to do a re-read, but I did not want to discourage anybody else from joining in, so I was leaving room for other peoples choices.
I was leaving room for other choices as well. And I still am really. While I'm waiting to see how it unfolds, I'll just go ahead with Henry IV. It really only takes a couple of weeks to read a play even if you include the pre-reading—synpopsis, etc.
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Good. Henry IV Part 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_1

“I know you all, and will awhile uphold
The unyoked humour of your idleness.
Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,
That when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wondered at
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished-for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
So, when this loose behaviour I throw off
And pay the debt I never promisèd,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men’s hopes;
And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I’ll so offend to make offence a skill,
Redeeming time when men think least I will.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1
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This passage is Prince (Hal) Henry speaking, although I'm not sure what the context is yet. Shakespeare certainly has a beautiful way with words.
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I could be wrong but I think Hal has realized that his friends will have to be left off if he is to be loyal to the throne he will at sometime inherit.
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