Podcast 25: The Third Part of Henry the Sixth Wrap-Up and Overview
This week's podcast includes a wrap up of our month-long discussion of The Third Part of Henry the Sixth, including an overview of the play, a discussion of possible casting, a production concept, and a recap of this week's blog entries.
Errata:
1:26 -- Text should be "last month's" instead of "last year's"
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This podcast was recorded using a Blue Snowball microphone onto a Dell XPS 400 computer, using Adobe Soundbooth recording and editing software.
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Errata:
1:26 -- Text should be "last month's" instead of "last year's"
Podcast Credits
This podcast was recorded using a Blue Snowball microphone onto a Dell XPS 400 computer, using Adobe Soundbooth recording and editing software.
The bumper music (Loop 90) and the segue music (Morning Show Segue) are courtesy of Royalty Free Music.com, which offers a comprehensive music library of production music for your various royalty free music needs including full albums, tracks and free music clips, loops, and beats available for download.
The first time I listened to the Henry VI plays, I thought them something of a big bore. I listened to them just so I could get to Richard III. After a long wait, and a dozen listenings to Richard, I gave them another chance, and found them a great, fun, historical, melodrama, kind of medieval Dallas, where, when your enemy (or friend) stabs you in the back, you stayed stabbed. I wish the plays, along with Richard of course, were produced more frequently. The BBC’s production got them just right (I think its weakest production of the four plays was Richard III. Ron Cook just isn’t sinister or commanding enough for me).
I also think Shakespeare accomplished a major feat. He compressed 50 years of
English history, covering the reign of three kings, the final stage of the Hundred Years’ War, the whole Wars of the Roses, and the life of 50 some historical figures into four plays totaling twelve hours. Granted, he took some major liberties with the facts, and keeping track of who’s who can be daunting, but the plays do give a reasonable picture of what happened, and they’re great fun.
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This was my first time through on the Henry VI plays... and I was fearing the boredom you described, but like you I found them to be pretty entertaining.
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