tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post2737053116199759947..comments2023-09-29T04:22:04.132-07:00Comments on Quills: Summer reading: The Downfall and The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, by Anthony MundayFretful Porpentinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-87669710029980344062010-05-29T21:40:44.042-07:002010-05-29T21:40:44.042-07:00I came across your post while looking for informat...I came across your post while looking for information on the Munday play (I'm a big fan of the BBC's recent incarnation of Robin Hood, which has its own cracktacular moments, and have been looking for information on previous fictional treatments of the legend). Great synopsis!ladykate63https://www.blogger.com/profile/06568053305373536868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-984580048798031582007-05-28T15:24:00.000-07:002007-05-28T15:24:00.000-07:00Hi, Wat!Yeah, I read Blogging the Renaissance; I'm...Hi, Wat!<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I read Blogging the Renaissance; I'm not sure this is quite ... Holzknechtian enough for them, though? I mean, it's not divided up into acts or anything, and I'm pretty sure I've skipped a few characters and plot points, and gotten a number of others out of order.Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-30697174808784940122007-05-28T11:44:00.000-07:002007-05-28T11:44:00.000-07:00I just wandered over to your blog from Quod She. D...I just wandered over to your blog from Quod She. Do you read Blogging the Renaissance? (blogggingtherenaissance.blogspot.com). Great blog, and they have a series for "Holzknecht Redivivus"--expanding plots of infrequently read early modern plays. I bet they'd love to be able to link to your Munday summaries here.<BR/><BR/>Good luck in the new job!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-57958321236874056462007-05-24T19:21:00.000-07:002007-05-24T19:21:00.000-07:00That's true, though even the Henry VIs are less on...That's true, though even the <I>Henry VI</I>s are less on crack than Munday's or Peele's entries into the genre. Though I may just be, as you indicated in the post, overconditioned. Certainly things like the CSI: Windsor scene in 2H6 are pretty deliriously insane. Oh, and Margaret talking to Suffolk's head, even when the head doesn't sing as it did in one otherwise brilliant production I saw.<BR/><BR/>I love the <I>Henry VI</I>s so much.<BR/><BR/>Anent <I>Edward I,</I> I think my favorite part of it is the part where Queen Eleanor (whose bitchiness is apparently the ENTIRE POINT of the WHOLE PLAY) insists that wrapping her newborn son Edward in frieze to honor his birth in Caernarvon is just Not On, because her son's upbringing must be <I>fabulous.</I><BR/><BR/>You can just see Peele going "heh. See, he got it from his mother."Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07249532247015252188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-42376205577220893822007-05-24T17:41:00.000-07:002007-05-24T17:41:00.000-07:00Really, the entire chronicle history tradition is ...<I>Really, the entire chronicle history tradition is on crack, and we just don't realize it because nobody ever reads non-Shakespearean history plays...</I><BR/><BR/>Or the <I>Henry VI</I> plays, for that matter. Plenty o' crack in Shakespeare if you know where to look...<BR/><BR/><I>There's also something about Robin Hood that brings out the cracktacular in Elizabethan dramatists -- have you read Peele's Edward I? Llewellyn ap Gryffydd spends much of the play running around disguised as RH and it is insane. </I><BR/><BR/>Not yet, but apparently I'm going to have to. :: adds to reading list ::Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164185959238733667.post-43748410014948803002007-05-24T16:24:00.000-07:002007-05-24T16:24:00.000-07:00(Meagher devotes an extended, and hilarious, footn...<I>(Meagher devotes an extended, and hilarious, footnote to working out whether there are actually two or three Bruses in this scene.)</I><BR/><BR/>Now, see, if I were staging the play, I'd be so tempted to have them break out into the Philosophers' Song...<BR/><BR/>I read the <I>Downfall</I> and <I>Death</I> a couple of years ago while blitzing through a huge collection of history plays for dissertatory purposes, most of which I'm not going to be using at all but I'm glad to have read them, and verily, it is on crack. Really, the entire chronicle history tradition is on crack, and we just don't realize it because nobody ever reads non-Shakespearean history plays, except for <I>Edward II</I> which is basically written according to the Shakespearean model. <BR/><BR/>There's also something about Robin Hood that brings out the cracktacular in Elizabethan dramatists -- have you read Peele's <I>Edward I</I>? Llewellyn ap Gryffydd spends much of the play running around disguised as RH and it is insane.Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07249532247015252188noreply@blogger.com