#Henry VI part 2

[mrs-starkgaryen]

Favourite Shakespeare's Histories

After my other poll, I am going to be specific. There shall be a battle of the favourites!!

For the love of Shakespeare, please reblog for a better analysis

[sturridges]

THE HOLLOW CROWN season 2, episode 2

"Henry VI Part 2"

[gwydpolls]

Shakespeare Genre Battle: Histories

I'm doing all of them. Don't worry if yours isn't in this poll.

I am including some things with disputed authorship, collaborations, and apocrypha just because.

[thevelvetgoldmine]

TOM STURRIDGE as Henry VI

The Hollow Crown S02E02 - "Henry VI, Part 2"

[thatchronicfeeling]

I do not recommend reading through your medical notes. Not a fun time. However, one thing I've discovered is that my doctor writes her notes in the same way that Anne Lister writes her diary. I have decided to find this hilarious. Interestingly enough, the one time I met my doctor in person (we usually have telephone appointments), I got Anne Listerish vibes from her. Not the version of Anne Lister that I'm attracted to. Not the version that I find likeable. But the I do not mistake; But thou mistakest me much to think I do (Henry VI Part 2, Act 5, Scene 1)*

version of Anne Lister. When my doctor first met me, she assumed that I just needed to be 'jollied along'. That some 'chin up'-type encouragement would magically make me not bedbound. As if I'd just given up on my beautiful, wonderful life, rather than having multiple massively debilitating illnesses (shout out to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Postural Tachycardia Syndrome). What she didn't realise is that I can go toe-to-toe with the '226 pounds, 17 shillings & sixpence' version of Anne Lister. In the roughly eighteen months since that first encounter with my doctor, things have improved immeasurably. We have come to a wary truce. ---

I've never seen or read Henry VI Part 2. The reason I'm familiar with these lines is because, when I visited Stratford-upon-Avon as a teenager, I got a set of rubbers (erasers) that had Shakespearean quotes on them. 'Out, damned spot!' etc. I used them for years afterwards. What I realised now, when double-checking with the source text, is that the full quote is as follows: [...] I do not mistake; But thou mistakest me much to think I do: To Bedlam with him! Is the man grown mad? In the context of medical gaslighting, this is quite something.

[hegodamask]

Kyle Soller as Clifford in The Hollow Crown - Henry VI, Part 2

[pendantaudio]

The Pendant Shakespeare proudly presents: Henry VI part 2, chapter 1!

Dramaturgy by Morgan Z. Sowell, directed by Jeff Robinson!

Available on Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Samsung Podcasts, and more!

[virgo-dream]

wimdy

[irate-iguana]

The promised sequel to my previous post:

If anyone wants to help me come up with drag names for these characters, please feel free!

[mybleedingboy]

free recordings of shakespeare plays

in alphabetical order for convenience (but pls use CTRL+F) disclaimer: i have not watched all of these.

all's well that ends well to julius caesar (part 1, here)

king john to the winter's tale (part 2, coming tomorrow maybe idk)

*login with public library card or university, italicized are audio recordings, ! means I don't want the video to get taken down so I didn't add it but search it up and you'll find a good production on a specific website...

All's Well That Ends Well

Shakespeare by the Sea (2013)

UC Davis Playing Shakespeare (2010)

BBC Television Shakespeare* or (1981)

Plainfield Little Theatre (2016)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Antony and Cleopatra !

Royal Shakespeare Company (1974)

Unbound Theatre (2019)

Shakespeare & Company (2018)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Greatest Audio Books (2013)

As You Like It

movie adapted by JM Barrie and Robert Cullen (1936)

The Public Theater of MN (2013)

Rice University (2019)

Oxford Theatre Guild (2020)

Shakespeare & Company (2014)

Battle Ground High School Drama Club (2017)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Greatest Audio Books (2015)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1978)

Comedy of Errors

Steam-Punk Performance (2014)

Shakespeare by the Sea (2019)

Shakespeare in the Park NZ (2007)

Coronado Playhouse (2021)

Highland Arts Theatre (2021)

Theatre Company of Saugus, pt. 2 (2023)

Shakespeare Network (2020)

Greatest Audio Books (2013)

BBC Movie* (1984)

Coriolanus !

Brussels Shakespeare Society (2017)

Movie (1964)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Cymbeline

Shakespeare by the Sea (2016)

Shakespeare & Company (2012)

Movie* (1984)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Hamlet ! (hint: Moriarty)

adapted and dir. Laurence Olivier (1948)

Abrahamse & Meyer Production (2015)

Bob Jones University (2020)

Broadway Production (1964)

starr. Maxine Peake (2015)

BLC Theatre (2013)

Hamlet as a Rock Opera (2007)

Radio Drama (2018?)

Studio Album star. 1964 Broadway cast (1964)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1980)

Royal Shakespeare Company* (2013)

Wooster Group Re-making* (?) (2012)

Henry IV, Part I

English Shakespeare Company (1990)

Brussels Shakespeare Society (adapted I and II, 2017)

TVO (1990)

Shakespeare & Company (2017)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1950)

Oakshot Press (2017)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)

H4* (Henry IV parts I and II in futuristic Los Angeles, 2012)

Henry IV, Part II

English Shakespeare Company (1990)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Oakshot Press (2017)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)

Henry V

Laurence Olivier (1944)

English Shakespeare Company (1990)

Barn Theatre (2020?)

St. Louis Shakespeare,pt. 2 (2011)

ASC Theatre Company (2022)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

AudioBookBuzz (2018)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1979)

Henry VI, Part I

Royal Shakespeare Company (parts I, II, and III, 1956)

English Shakespeare Company (1990)

Shakespeare by the Sea (2021)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)

Henry VI, Part II

English Shakespeare Company (1990)

ASC Theatre Camp (2020)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1954)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)

Henry VI, Part III

English Shakespeare Company (1990?)

Whitman College (1992)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1955)

(BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)

Henry VIII

Shakespeare Happy Hours (online, 2020)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1957)

BBC Shakespeare Plays* (1984)

Julius Caesar !

starr. Gielgud, dir. Stuart Burge (1970)

Festival Series (1960)

Flint Hills Shakespeare Festival (2016)

Shakespeare at Winedale (2018)

Acting for a Cause (2022)

Shakespeare Network (1998)

Greatest AudioBooks (2013)

dir. Gregory Doran* (2012)

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

alright henry vi: house of lancaster (english shakespeare company) let’s go

thank you @shredsandpatches

[thelastofthebookworms]

The poll about the comedies has already ended but you'll find the tragedies in my 'shakespeare' tag / my pinned post.

I'll made a final poll with the winners for comedy, tragedy 1, tragedy 2 and history when we'll have the results

[transsexualcoriolanus]

once again, shakespeare's histories are getting kinda gay

[m-accost]

I wonder how many people just assume that "A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to" is something that Tolkien wrote, and not an invention of one of the screenwriters of Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring. I ask this because that was precisely my assumption, until a few hours ago, and I've read the book (albeit years ago). I also wonder whether that line was inspired by one in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II: "Patience, good lady; wizards know their times" (Bolingbroke, Act I, Scene IV, line 16)

[uwmspeccoll]

Shakespeare Weekend!

King Henry the Sixth: Part Two, of the three part play, is the thirteenth volume of the thirty-seven volume The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, published by the Limited Editions Club (LEC) from 1939-1940. The plays were first acted in 1592. The second part was published anonymously in 1594, and the third part in 1595. All three parts were published in the folio of 1623. 

The LEC Part Two was illustrated in lithograph by American artist, illustrator, and printmaker Carlotta Petrina (1901-1997). Petrina illustrated many texts throughout her career, including special editions for the Limited Edition Club: South Wind by Norman Douglas and John Milton’s Paradise Lost. This was her first time illustrating a play, which provided new and exciting possibilities for her, she says: 

I found a new thrill not experienced in drawing for novels or poems: that of discovery. For, in a play, one is forced to judge the characters oneself from their words and actions, rather than from descriptions of them, more as one must come to understand real people.

The volume in the set was printed in an edition of 1950 copies at the Press of A. Colish, and each volume in the set was illustrated by a different artist, but the unifying factor is that all volumes were designed by famed book and type designer Bruce Rogers and edited by the British theatre professional and Shakespeare specialist Herbert Farjeon. Our copy is number 1113, the number for long-standing LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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-Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern