The Queen in Richard ii has some of the most incredible and illuminating

one of his best and most overlooked plays

I forgot to greentext it all but you get the drift

>>9980728
Definitely

Expanding on what I said above - the idea of ownership and land being somehow a measure of the self in feudalist England has some interesting parallels with Consumerism today. Richard has a real fear that Bolingbroke's taking of his land means he is lesser as an individual, as in the famous speech
>Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's, and nothing can we call our own but death, and that small model of the barren earth that saves as paste and cover to our bones
Also there's that idea in there of the literal ground a person inhabits, in death as a grave, being all of their value - which plays into Richard's machinations, the taking of Gaunt's property and the idea of inheritance in a rather literal way. I'm rambling and it's late so sorry if this is all bollocks. Also the quote is from memory and though I think it's correct the punctuation is way off

thanks for the rec

>>9980721
I see what you did there. That flick, good as it was compared to the rest of the series, made glaring mistake by gaying up the King and lessening the power the Queen has in play.

Anyways, fantastic work. Definately one of my favourite. I've memorised lines from it on a whim.

Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm off from an anointed king;
The breath of worldly men cannot depose
The deputy elected by the Lord:
For every man that Bolingbroke hath press'd
To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay
A glorious angel: then, if angels fight,
Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.

>>9981261

Hoisted on his own canard.

Little fairy.