“selfish, sensual, socially useless"
- ivan turgenev

en passant

SUFFOLK
Say, gentle princess, would you not suppose
Your bondage happy, to be made a queen?

MARGARET
To be a queen in bondage is more vile
Than is a slave in base servility;
For princes should be free.

SUFFOLK
And so shall you,
If happy England’s royal king be free.

MARGARET
Why, what concerns his freedom unto me?

SUFFOLK
I’ll undertake to make thee Henry’s queen,
To put a golden sceptre in thy hand
And set a precious crown upon thy head,
If thou wilt condescend to be my—

MARGARET
What?

SUFFOLK
His love.

—SUFFOLK YOU’RE NOT SLICK

posted 11 months ago with 9 notes

tagged: #shakespeare #henry vi #he kisses her and it's almost an internal stage direction that she laughs #'that for thyself: i would not so presume to send such peevish tokens to a king' #belittling and loving instantly #that was not a kingship kiss #that kiss belonged to them and all the strategy in the world doesn't suffice to legitimize it #his rhetorical cards are on the table #she has no power to call her own #but she's going to be queen and he's going to be her queenmaker and they are each other's power and ugh #they're just utterly on top of each other all the time #PERFECT EVERYTHING HELP

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