We are meeting on SUNDAY 7p.m. UK time to discuss Richard II.
Whatever you want to ask or discuss, you can drop in the comments here.
Did you love the play or hate it? What ideas do you want to talk about? Did anything shock you? What do you want to discuss? Did you see a good (or bad) production? Tell us!
**I will record most of the session so that people who cannot join can watch it later.**
MEETING LINK — https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87591101308?pwd=5W3XpZXSJ2etTa7YOOEPS5znkPGwt6.1
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3.3
I'll give my jewels for a set of beads,
My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,
My figured goblets for a dish of wood,
...
It sounds nice if a little delusional. Then Richard comes to this part:
And my large kingdom for a little grave,
A little, little grave, an obscure grave;
Or I'll be buried in the King's highway,
Some way of common trade where subjects' feet
May hourly trample on their sovereign's head...
But is this possible? To be a King and to also be obscure? He is imagining highly unlikely things for himself. But it is very engaging and by the end we are almost rooting for him.
Most memorable was Ian McKellen 1969 Edinburgh Festival. I had studied it at school and was unimpressed. But the Prospect Company production was outstanding.