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britneyshakespeare · 3 months ago

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You know the Riverside Shakespeare 1973 was not a comfortable book to read sitting on your lap or lying down in bed but the RSC Complete Works Second Edition 2022 is noticeably worse. The difference in size isn't very significant; the RSC uses a different kind of paper but I'm not sure it's even thinner (they're both very thin, somewhat see-through paper) (not because they're cheap, but because it's more practical, considering these are unwieldy tomes exceeding 2000 pages). But since the RSC doesn't have double-column text on the pages like most Complete Works do, the extra margin space given requires somewhat more pages for the text. I'm not gonna check exactly (these are searchable though), but if the Riverside is about 2000 pages, then the RSC is about 2500. You'd think I had managed enough comfort with the Riverside over the years that the adjustment wouldn't be that terrible. No, it's terrible.

#it's so uncomfortable to read a scene that lasts more than two pages #bc i always have to adjust my position about every two pages #depends how im starting w #there's no comfortable position there's just a least uncomfortable position and it's still quite painful #i very much dont have a desk or any surface i usually read on #best i do is the kitchen table. sometimes #a coffee table is too low to be not a pain in the neck (literally)#it's not a big improvement to laying it in my lap #tales from diana #anyway unrelated but i read the first 2 acts of king john last night #and when i went to bed i was thinking a lot about my impressions of the play #bc i had read a lot about it before actually reading it. and of course #i do find the nonfictional historical Bad King John and the other angevin kings just interesting #so i had/have high expectations for this play #and i dreamt that i finished it and it just sucked #it had a happy ending bc where i left off awake was blanche and louis the dauphin getting married #and it was like. pro-john propaganda #so hilarious bc i can't. i can't picture it. john might be the least popular english king of them all #bloody mary and richard iii and charles i and henry viii i have scene serious defenses for #(some more valid than others but im just grouping them bc theyre all controversial in history)#ive never seen a serious defense or justification of john other than well maybe richard lionheart was just too popular #lol. but to be fair if i were the favorite son of henry ii i would probably be a tyrannical narcissist as well #that's it that's the best defense i can make for john

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