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bedlamsbardOh my God, you know what I want to write, except I totally wouldn't, because oh my God so much work? The Telmarine age of theatre. Like, there's the fifty-eight cycle morality play about the rise and fall of the High King Peter, which is heavily criticized for outright stating an incestuous relationship between Peter and Queen Susan (and remember, one of the big debates of Narnian history is whether or not Susan is Peter's wife or his sister) and implying an equally incestuous relationship between Peter and Prince Edmund. Then there are the Shakespearean style plays, the Tragedy of the Prince of Shadows (a.k.a. Edmund), the one about his lover, the, uh, married woman he got pregnant, and a bunch of swashbuckling stories about Peter killing things, and also a well-known comedy about his seven fiancees, except by this time they've turned into his seven wives, and then there's some tragedy about Queen Susan, and one minor play about Princess-Consort Lucy. And the historians gripe bitterly about the plays, because they're not at all accurate, and some things are seriously messed up, because Caspian the Conqueror and Peter the High King certainly did not live in the same era. And then someone gets the bright idea to put on these plays in front of the Pevensies during PC, when they're at the Telmarine castle...
Like MacBeth showing up at the Globe. "I did what? And my wife did what? God, you fucking English."
*snickers*
Like MacBeth showing up at the Globe. "I did what? And my wife did what? God, you fucking English."
*snickers*
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Date: 2008-09-15 05:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-09-15 05:21 pm (UTC)And then Lucy beats him up, and Susan and Peter go off to comfort Edmund, (and plot a vicious and subtle revenge)
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Date: 2008-09-15 05:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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