Henry IV

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• jacques_chester · Aug 22, 2011 · Recommends

  …"Essential Books Mostly from the 20th Century". Which is good and well, but there's thousands of years of great literature to draw from. And I've read far too little of it. As for Shakespeare, I prefer Henry IV and King Lear. Edit: Three books about Theodore Roosevelt? He was Norris-like, but history furnishes a great many awesome badasses. I quite admire Gaius Julius Caesar personally.

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• thekaleb · Apr 24, 2016 · Recommends

  I never enjoyed Shakespeare until I began reading King Henry IV on a mobile WAP site on my Nokia about 12 years ago while guarding some railroad tracks.

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• hugh3 · Jul 5, 2010 · Mentions

  Just a couple of examples I happened to come across while researching for another comment: In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare makes a pun which only works if "Rome" is pronounced like "room". Also, in Henry IV, Part One, there's a pun resting on the similarity of "reason" and "raisin".

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• pavlov · Nov 26, 2022 · Mentions

  Shakespeare wrote about Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Henry IV, and so on. How did he learn about these people if there was nothing to read?

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• cafard · Jul 20, 2013 · Mentions

  …grips with who they are" a large theme in Western literature? (And I suppose, but can't cite, other literatures also.) The Odyssey kicks off with Athena inspiring Telemachus to independence. Shakespeare's Henry IV plays are all about Prince Hal becoming Henry V. War and Peace follows three men from adolescence to maturity, and one of them, Prince Andrei, to a couple of levels. And I think one could find examples…

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• jfmercer · Dec 22, 2016 · Mentions

  …national, and historical identity. For example, the Henry V that impressed itself on the English imagination was not so much the real, historical Henry V, but rather the hero of Shakespeare's "Henriad": Henry IV, Parts I and II, and Henry V. (Cf. the St. Crispin's Day speech: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers," etc.) Dr. Tombs is the Professor of French at Cambridge. Ironically, after devoting a lifetime…

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• mannykannot · Jan 30, 2018 · Mentions

  Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I There are actually two issues here: Firstly, on what basis, under US law, does the CTFC have the authority to issue a subpoena, and secondly, whether, under international law or treaty, it has…

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• fernly · Dec 29, 2020 · Mentions

  Yeah! Somehow my brain started to channel Shakespeare and say "Why, so can I, and so can any man, be the tape but long enough!" (Then I had to look it up. Henry IV Part I, Act III, Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep; Hotspur: Why so can I, and so can any man, but will they come when you do call them?)

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• denton-scratch · Jun 23, 2023 · Mentions

  …I was privileged to go to a school that did regular Shakespeare productions (with kids acting all parts, and doing stuff like lighting). The head of English was a good stage director. They did Lear, Henry IV 1&2, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Merchant, 12th Night. I must say, I've never found a screen production of Shakespeare as gripping as these stage productions featuring my own schoolmates. Doing Shakespeare…

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