King Charles III

[Dawnedlightly]

Anyone else watching? I'm recording it and watching about 10 mins behind...
I'm enjoying the blank verse and lookylikies

[KindergartenKop]

I'm loving it, it's a good premise.

[GreenHairDontCare]

I might download it tomorrow. But, he won't be Charles III will he? They all start using a middle name iirc.

[Maudlinmaud]

Blank verse, really? Could I sell it to students do you think?

[NormaSmuff]

Struggling to concentrate on it

[peukpokicuzo]

Elizabeth II uses her first name. But yes I've heard the plan was for him to be George VII - however I suspect he will choose not to follow that plan when the time comes

[KindergartenKop]

They don't all use a middle name (see Elizabeth II). King Charles is a bit of an unlucky one though...

[Dawnedlightly]

Maudlin
I think it's blank verse- sort of rhymey, sort of Shakespearean? Free verse? #notanEnglishteacher

[CormorantDevouringTime]

I think he's decided on George, but obviously Charles III is an easier title to sell the play under. Not watching but I listened to the radio version last year and really enjoyed it. (Except that there is no way on god's earth that Chazza would go to the wall for that particular cause. I get the dramatic irony, but no, not in a million years).

[Dawnedlightly]

Although the dogs do have big ears 😂

[AlwaysTheWinner]

I am enjoying the Shakespearean language too!

[Maudlinmaud]

Oh I'm so excited, I'll watch it on catch up.
Blank verse is unrhymed usually in iambic pentametre, but not always.

[elephantoverthehill]

I started watching but I think I will watch it properly on Friday night when I am not too tired to concentrate.

[CormorantDevouringTime]

Yes it's proper Shakespearean blank verse. I think a carefully chosen scene or two might work well for students.

[GardeningWithDynamite]

Wouldn't it be cool if William became King Arthur? (think that's one of his middle names)

[NataliaOsipova]

My opinion, for what it's worth, is that it was better (not brilliant, but better) on the stage. It's an interesting idea, but is too contrived to be wholly successful.

[NormaSmuff]

I do like the language but not Diana ghostly apparitions

[SetPhasersTaeMalkie]

I'm not enjoying the blank verse. At all.

I'm hard pressed not to laugh at Diana's ghost too.

Perhaps it worked better in the theatre?

[RustyBear]

I saw the play at Wyndham's in 2015, that was a very bare stage, so this has a very different feel.

Incidentally, Mike Bartlett also wrote last Saturday's Doctor Who episode.

[RustyBear]

The ghost on the stage was very vague, more just a shadow half hidden by a curtain at the back of the stage.

[TheFallenMadonna]

I like it now I've got used to it. DS and I can't quite get over the fact that Harry is the same Harry as in the rather more lowbrow The Windsors. It's disconcerting.

[SuperBeagle]

I'll still call him King Chuck.

[TheOriginalChatelaine]

Iambic pentemeter within the blank verse is giving it a Shakespearean quality. I'm enjoying it.

[KindergartenKop]

William, you usurper!

[viques]

Very clever! Diana getting her revenge at last....

[SinglePringle]

Which channel please?