rickydickdamndiculous:Prince Hal is a cheeky little shit.1) Yes, he is. 2) This gives me even more f
rickydickdamndiculous:Prince Hal is a cheeky little shit.1) Yes, he is. 2) This gives me even more feelings about how this production treats the king’s two bodies. Because when Falstaff impersonates Henry, he plays The King. His response to Hal’s “Do thou stand for my father, and examine me upon the particulars of my life” is to get the props of kingship:He has the throne, the sword, the crown… even (as not detailed in the text) a jug of sack to replace the orb. When Hal takes his place, he wears the cloth cap that his father uses to keep out the cold. He drapes himself like an old man huddled too deep in his robes. The gesture and the voice are perfect parody. But the choice of props tells us – or at least suggests – that Hal truly sees his father, that he knows (more intimately than either of them, perhaps, would care to admit) the man who is the king. And when Hal sits in judgment over himself, what is the punishment he enjoins for his own ungraciousness? To be deprived of that seeing.…I’m okay. I am not okay. -- source link
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