Henry IV

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1. thekalebApr 2016
   I never enjoyed Shakespeare until I began reading King Henry IV on a mobile WAP site on my Nokia about 12 years ago while guarding some railroad tracks.
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2. jacques_chesterAug 2011
   A better title might have been "Essential Books Mostly from the 20th Century". Which is good and well, but there's thousands of years of great literature to draw from.

   And I've read far too little of it.

   As for Shakespeare, I prefer Henry IV and King Lear.

   Edit: Three books about Theodore Roosevelt? He was Norris-like, but history furnishes a great many awesome badasses. I quite admire Gaius Julius Caesar personally.

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3. denton-scratchJun 2023
   As a kid, I saw the Peter Brook production of AMND at Stratford. It bowled me over. I never saw another Shakespeare production so powerful.

   I was privileged to go to a school that did regular Shakespeare productions (with kids acting all parts, and doing stuff like lighting). The head of English was a good stage director. They did Lear, Henry IV 1&2, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Merchant, 12th Night.

   I must say, I've never found a screen production of Shakespeare as gripping as these stage productions featuring my own schoolmates.

   Doing Shakespeare readings in class is absolutely the wrong way to do it. It just kills it; no wonder so many kids these days hate Shakespeare.

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4. pavlovNov 2022
   Shakespeare wrote about Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Henry IV, and so on. How did he learn about these people if there was nothing to read?
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5. fernlyDec 2020
   Yeah! Somehow my brain started to channel Shakespeare and say "Why, so can I, and so can any man, be the tape but long enough!"

   (Then I had to look it up. Henry IV Part I, Act III, Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep; Hotspur: Why so can I, and so can any man, but will they come when you do call them?)

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6. mannykannotJan 2018
   Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?

   William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I

   There are actually two issues here: Firstly, on what basis, under US law, does the CTFC have the authority to issue a subpoena, and secondly, whether, under international law or treaty, it has any power to compel compliance. The link in sna1l's post has something on both issues.

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