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withasideofshakespeare · 5 days ago

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Have you ever noticed that pretty much everybody in Shakespeare's histories is an awful parent? Now you can rank them according to your tastes in (bad) parenting with my tier list maker:

I probably forgot somebody (please tell me if I did) and also all of the parent-adjacent characters are included according to my personal tastes (mostly because Falstaff does a LOT of (weird) parenting and deserved a spot and then pulled a bunch of other people along with him).

Here's mine:

#shakespeare #shakespeare's histories #tier list #richard ii #1 henry iv #2 henry iv #henry v #1 henry vi #2 henry vi #3 henry vi #richard iii #king john #justifications:#john of gaunt is really nice to henry in their appearance together. it's sweet!#richard duke of york may SUCK but he is pretty darn nice to his kids. one of very few people who doesn't constantly insult richard jr #margaret got moved down to b tier for bringing her kid along to watch her torture a guy to death. but points for the unique bonding activit #owain glyndwr is a good dad. lets his daughter marry an englishman!#everybody in C tier is trying their best i think #hal didn't *mean* to die before even meeting his son but he Did. i'm sorry.#cecily probably deserves f tier for constantly insulting her son but to be fair he *is* evil #everyone in f tier directly or indirectly causes the death of their child #except for bolingbroke #he just sucks #don't tell your son you wish you could replace him with someone else's son! and don't call him a degenerate!#no wonder hal replaces him with a weird drunkard.#the yellow characters are only designated as parents because my notes say their historical equivalents were #and yes my source for that is my annotations in a book that i wrote down probably two years ago now #PLEASE correct me if i'm being an idiot #or if i forgot anybody!#also can you tell that i haven't read king john?

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