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...decades earlier, another great critic, James Agate, reviewing a production of I Henry IV, stated: "Shakespearean history is like beer; some is better than other some, but none is bad. I could sit for hours and listen entranced to such cataloguing as: 'Of prisoners, Hotspur took/Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son/To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol,/Of Murray, Angus and Menteith.'" I doubt that there are many who would agree with Tynan, and I'm sure precious few would echo Agate...
...historical plot, the three main characters are Henry IV, his son Hal, and the Percy rebel known as Hotspur. At the time covered by the play, the actual King was only 36, and the other two were a generation apart at 16 and 39, respectively. Following the lead of one of his sources. Daniel's epic poem The Civil Wars and of course his own dramatic instinct. Shakespeare made the King older and the two rivals both about...
...throne, the realm will dissolve in chaos. Chaos abounds as it is. Scotland and Wales are in rebellion, and the noble families who helped Henry to overthrow Richard II are now conspiring to overthrow him. Paradoxically, the King admires one of those conspirators, Harry Percy (Timothy Dalton), known as Hotspur. He so cherishes Hotspur's valor that he wishes...
...zany and offbeat are also well represented on tape. British Comic Terry-Thomas is ideally cast as the reader of two "Jeeves" tales by P.G. Wodehouse (Caedmon; $12.95). Ariel, a new label, offers, among others, Humphrey Bogart as Hotspur in Henry IV on its two-volume Shakespeare in Hollywood set. And for those who cannot break the information habit, Books on Tape offers Newstrack, a bimonthly 90-minute talking magazine-garnered from the pages of TIME and other publications-for $195 per year...
...thoughts turn back to Hotspur, and the night his sword broke. "I'd like to give that show constantly. I'd like to be on the line--always be on the edge of dying," he says, "I'm secure enough that I'd like to feel I could give...