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King Charles III

66 replies

Dawnedlightly · 10/05/2017 21:18

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

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KindergartenKop · 10/05/2017 21:35

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

GreenHairDontCare · 10/05/2017 21:38

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

Maudlinmaud · 10/05/2017 21:40

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

NormaSmuff · 10/05/2017 21:40

Struggling to concentrate on it

peukpokicuzo · 10/05/2017 21:42

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 · 10/05/2017 21:42

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

Dawnedlightly · 10/05/2017 21:43

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

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CormorantDevouringTime · 10/05/2017 21:44

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 · 10/05/2017 21:44

Although the dogs do have big ears 😂

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AlwaysTheWinner · 10/05/2017 21:45

I am enjoying the Shakespearean language too!

Maudlinmaud · 10/05/2017 21:46

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

elephantoverthehill · 10/05/2017 21:46

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

CormorantDevouringTime · 10/05/2017 21:47

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

GardeningWithDynamite · 10/05/2017 21:48

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

NataliaOsipova · 10/05/2017 21:49

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 · 10/05/2017 21:49

I do like the language but not Diana ghostly apparitions

SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 10/05/2017 21:52

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 · 10/05/2017 21:52

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 · 10/05/2017 21:53

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

TheFallenMadonna · 10/05/2017 21:56

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 · 10/05/2017 21:56

I'll still call him King Chuck.

TheOriginalChatelaine · 10/05/2017 22:13

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

KindergartenKop · 10/05/2017 22:17

William, you usurper!

viques · 10/05/2017 22:22

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

SinglePringle · 10/05/2017 22:33

Which channel please?

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