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A review by goosemixtapes
Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
5.0
i'm lethally more insane now. like permanently
february 2023 review: i seriously have nothing smart to say about this play; i just fucking love it. i love it so much. i know nobody wants to read a shakespearean history play (with a part ONE in the title, no less), but i've read the entire canon and can assert with confidence that this is always in my top 5 favorites list and hal and hotspur are some of shakespeare's most compelling, fascinating, larger-than-life characters. ooougughghghh when the characters are foils. when the characters. are foils. this play's only flaw (beyond "needs more women," which with the histories is an unfortunate given) is that i can't stand falstaff and i need his speeches to be, like, half the length (though i will admit he is better on-screen than on-page). sorry to my shakespeare class who had to deal with me in the back of the classroom bursting a vein trying not to stim and/or yell out answers to the professor's questions
also this reread has cemented my opinion that hotspur is one of my favorite fictional characters of all time. he's got it all. autism swag. wife guy. loud. starts fights for no fucking reason. smart as hell. claims he hates poetry but talks solely in verse. battle machine of a human being. completely fucking insane. he is everything to me
february 2023 review: i seriously have nothing smart to say about this play; i just fucking love it. i love it so much. i know nobody wants to read a shakespearean history play (with a part ONE in the title, no less), but i've read the entire canon and can assert with confidence that this is always in my top 5 favorites list and hal and hotspur are some of shakespeare's most compelling, fascinating, larger-than-life characters. ooougughghghh when the characters are foils. when the characters. are foils. this play's only flaw (beyond "needs more women," which with the histories is an unfortunate given) is that i can't stand falstaff and i need his speeches to be, like, half the length (though i will admit he is better on-screen than on-page). sorry to my shakespeare class who had to deal with me in the back of the classroom bursting a vein trying not to stim and/or yell out answers to the professor's questions
also this reread has cemented my opinion that hotspur is one of my favorite fictional characters of all time. he's got it all. autism swag. wife guy. loud. starts fights for no fucking reason. smart as hell. claims he hates poetry but talks solely in verse. battle machine of a human being. completely fucking insane. he is everything to me