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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 7h

blackberries whose dreams all came true...

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 11h

King Henry: Hotspur is brilliant; my son Harry, though? Not so much #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... John Gielgud as King Henry in Chimes at Midnight (1965), the combined Henry IV dir. Orson Welles. It creaks, now, but the cinematography is amazing.

A still from a film. Close-up on a man wearing a crown. He's wearing a dark robe with a high collar. He's lit from the right, and there's a small barred window partly visible behind him, otherwise, it's deeply shadowed. He looks serious and preoccupied.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

King Henry: Hotspur's done well for himself; Westmorland: indeed #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Poster for the 2005 @nationaltheatre.org.uk Henry IV: David Bradley (Henry, L), Michael Gambon (Falstaff, C) & Matthew Macfadyen (Hal, R). What about HOTSPUR?

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am indeed. It's the end of a chapter called 'Leather/Wool'. Many, many gloves. Pictures of gloves! And thank you!!

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

seeing it at the end of the month - really looking forward to it! (not least because Fisayo Akinade is one of my most favourites.)

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh I don't know the Kevin Kline (not so good on US productions). I only saw the Peake in the cinema but really liked it. ALL THE HAMLETS. (I saw 8 different versions last year, for reviewing purposes, truly it was the year of Hamlet.)

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I hope you like it.... as I've just observed to Callan, still the occasion for startlement that there are readers.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

😭Callan, you are very kind... I'm so pleased that you like it (and still, you know, amazed that people are reading it!)

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was sorry to see this. He seemed a near-permanent presence in the CUL Rare Books room when I was a grad and postdoc, an entire table commandeered for multiple Foxes and the necessary enormous cushions...

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

King Henry: I know all this; HOTSPUR won #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Another image from the Donmar Henry IV, dir. Phyllida Lloyd 2014. Jade Anouka (R) as Hotspur, Cynthia Erivo (!) as Douglas. (they join forces later, here sparring together) 📸Helen Maybanks

A photograph of a play in performance. Dimly lit from the side, two young women wearing prison-type grey tracksuit bottoms and black vests, with heavy black trainers, are sparring in red gloves. The woman on the left has THE DOUGLAS written on her vest.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ah, only just seeing these! congratulations!

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the sheet for burial is really common. Not impossibly a wedding sheet.

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

it's fabulous! (well it was in 2016!)

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Part of a trilogy with the same ensemble & the same frame, with Julius Caesar & Tempest, with the great Harriet Walter as Henry, Brutus, Prospero. A revival of Julius Caesar (with Walter!) currently in Stratford and touring schools: www.rsc.org.uk/first-encoun...

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First Encounters - Julius Caesar | Royal Shakespeare Company

Harriet Walter reprises her role as Brutus in Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking 2012 Donmar Warehouse production, bringing world-class theatre to schools across England, and to The Other Place.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Westmorland: big battle! don't know who won? #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... One of the most influential recent Henry IVs: dir. Phyllida Lloyd @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social, first in 2014, within the frame of a women's prison. Jade Anouka, centre, as HOTSPUR.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I block them as spam (which they are). I imagine in your case it might be set up to provide some sort of feed of summaries? but what a waste of time, carbon, water etc...

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So enragingly pointless, isn't it? I get them on mine, although less explicitly identified as such.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

oh good spot! it's a brilliant image; really suggestive with all that lovely detail.

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Unfortunately, sire, it's THE NORTH too #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Henry IV opened the Barbican in 1982, dir. Trevor Nunn. This is the poster, reimagining the Agas map of late C16 London, in the rough shape of the British Isles. Maps matter in this play.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Westmorland: bad news, sire, it's the Welsh... #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... James Laurenson as Westmorland in the Hollow Crown 2012. Laurenson (1940-2024) was a Kiwi actor whose student acting career was shaped by Ngaio Marsh.

A still photograph of a character in a film. Half length, an older man, with a neat grey-white beard and moustache, and hair to his collar. He's wearing a grey velvet robe with a high collar and a big fox-fur collar, with a couple of heavy gold chains of office. He looks serious and dignified.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

oh that's cool! I shall have to wait...

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I thought DC was extraordinary... Is this one out in paper yet??

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

oh! I'm even now coming to the end of The Poisonwood Bible...

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

that was my first thought (partly as I'd been at a matinee of M4M!)... Earnest, not unlikeable, massive complexity.

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I enjoyed Golden Boy at the Almeida last night, less the play than the terrific production and ensemble; always a treat to see Zubin Varla, inter alia, but oh Daniel Mays (eg Iago, when??) and Josh O'Connor ❤️💔(more theatre, more Shakespeare, PLEASE: Angelo? Hamlet? Brutus? Richard II?) 📸Marc Brenner

A photograph of a play in performance. A young man with curly dark hair, wearing a white shirt, brown trousers, is leaning his cheek against a violinist's back, eyes closed; the violinist is wearing a dark jacket, the player's face obscured by his instrument.

The same young man, leaning his forehead against a battered punching. bag. His torso is bare and bloodstained, as is his face; he's wearing dark red silk shorts and his hands are bandaged and bloody.

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I saw this when you posted it earlier and somehow missed 'coin' 👀

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh yes. Ian's performed that in college... (Really interesting play, can tell you a LOT about it sometime...) 'Stranger' is the usual early modern English word for immigrant.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

King Henry: can I get updates from regional reps re crusade readiness? #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... A first outing for Jeremy Irons as Henry in the BBC's Hollow Crown (2012) & as Richard II @the-rsc.bsky.social 1986. Strong Plantagenet family resemblance.

A publicity photograph for a television series. A handsome middle-aged man wearing a crown, with alternating fleurs de lys, leaves, and crosses. He's wearing a brown robe with a big dark fur collar and cuffs, and a dark scarf tied around his neck. He has a neat salt and pepper beard and moustache.

A black and white photograph of a character in a play. The same man, much younger, wearing a shabby floppy white shirt; his hair is messy and he has stubble. He has a jewelled collar around his neck that looks a bit like a fallen crown.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean I haven't actually checked...

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

King Henry: I thought we'd have a HOLY war now? #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Jasper Britton as Henry in the opening scene of 1 Henry IV @the-rsc.bsky.social 2014, its design (des. Stephen Brimson Lewis) emphasising the religious context & language here.

A photograph of a play in performance. A king wearing a crown stands centre stage; it's dimly lit, with an enormous projection of a stained glass rose window on the floor, sanctuary lamps and a big crucifix hanging above, and a prayer desk in the foreground. There are monks with lighted candles standing in the background.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

jumping in to say, not vesting prayers as such, obviously, but the massively popular books of prayers by people like Daniel Featley for *domestic* use do I think include some getting dressed things?

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh, interesting! I looked on IMDB and on his Wikipedia page, but presumably the Japanese language coverage is much patchier. I did know that others of his productions were on DVD. Yes, there were surtitles in the theatre! I think?? but the visuals were so stunning that it didn't really matter.

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mine does that. On my actual knee.

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NO. Which is annoying. Just looked at Plat and various drama/ballad possibilities. @callanjd.bsky.social ??

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OH I didn't think to look in the education pack! I KNEW you would have it at your fingertips, Pete! that was an AMAZING production. I shall alert my own students! (Oh for a film of the Ninagawa though.)

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't... there isn't one on Dramaonline, as you will know. I think because the RSC ones have been in the Swan, and the most recent Globe one predates filming? Just looked for CbJ and there isn't a film of their brilliant French one alas. Pete K would know if anyone does??

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

King Henry: that's it, no more civil war! #ProdigalPrince #SlowShakespeare www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... David Troughton (he'd also played Bolingbroke to Sam West's Richard II) as King Henry in the 2000 @the-rsc.bsky.social Henry IV, dir. Michael Attenborough, des. Kandis Cook, Es Devlin.

A black and white photograph of a character in a play. A middle-aged man wearing a long pale robe with a high collar, with an elaborate crown on his head. His hands are clasped in his lap as he sits; he's speaking and looking serious.

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

well I hope you will approve of this latest attempt... What a nice cricketing conjunction!

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

well that will do to be going on with!!!

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there's a lot to be said for a title that does what it says on the tin (and really, it's search terms, isn't it, to be brutal, these days?) (I wouldn't have recognised the Stevens)

Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

First? not second. Possibly third.