There needs to be a smell of authenticity. It requires a leap of historical imagination. The staunch etiquette should appear strange, but in its strangeness we recognize ourselves and our society.
Alan Bennett has a fine sense of language and the type of people these were. They were highly sophisticated, incredibly well read, and extraordinarily cultured individuals. There is also a very contemporary voice to the piece which holds a strong connection with America.
Pressures and strains between a monarch and executives, the corruption which is endemic in any system as such.
King's loss and restitution of reputation. We see the human being through personal and political struggle.
He was a passionate constitutional monarchist portrayed incorrectly by historians as trying to restore absolute monarchy.
FOX as a FALSTAFF character. Prince of Wales as his Hal.
PITT was a career politician which is all he did apart from drink. He was a powerful drinker... (See the blog posting on Pitt.)
The text whizzes by from domestic to epic scenes in an instant.
We learned the term"foxed" mirrors in reference to the patina of the mirrors which make up the back walls of the regal Georgian space.
George has a stiflingly formal court.
PRINCE OF WALES PARTY-TIME. He could spend large quantities of other people's money.
Mistresses of the Prince. There are a lot.
http://historicalhussies.blogspot.com/2009/03/regency-gentlemans-clubs.html
PRINCE OF WALES PARTY-TIME. He could spend large quantities of other people's money.
Mistresses of the Prince. There are a lot.
Prinny: the Prince of Wales.
Prinny's paintings. He bought scores to cover the walls of Carlton House.
Chronicle of American Affairs: 176o-1783 during the tumultuous losing of the colonies.
GENTLEMAN'S CLUBS
Today we also participated in many exercises in STATUS and CLASS. Exploring these ideas in the abstract, also in the very concrete: everyone in George's England would know exactly where they stood in society. One's exact rank, status, and class and it's relationship to the throne were never in question.
Final word: In this play, the particular gives us the general, the global.
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