but actually the best bit about suffolk’s massive Team Margaret speech—and there are so many good things, like henry’s giddy shut-in ‘is this what love is like?’ baffled excitement, like his hugely melodramatic verbal recoil when gloucester mentions margaret’s poverty: “MONEY????? THAT’S WHAT PEASANTS WORRY ABOUT!”, like the fact that he won’t stop talking and is all ‘this is nothing, wait till you SEE her, this is goddamn appetizers’, like the FUCKING DOUBLE COUPLET—isn’t even in that scene, it’s in v.iii, once margaret’s left:
Solicit Henry with her wondrous praise:
Bethink thee on her virtues that surmount,
And natural graces that extinguish art;
Repeat their semblance often on the seas,
That, when thou comest to kneel at Henry’s feet,
Thou mayst bereave him of his wits with wonder.
HE SPENDS THE WHOLE BOAT RIDE HOME REHEARSING WHAT HE’S GOING TO TELL HENRY
(and he tells himself, yeahhhhh, just keep thinking about margaret and what a catch she is, this is the Best Strategic Decision Ever, and it’s a beautiful marvel of self-justification and i bet none of the sailors have any time for it at all)
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belinsky said:
this is some reverse greek tragedy shit billy all the good comedy’s offstage
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