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TOM HIDDLESTON as PRINCE HAL & DAVID DAWSON as POINS THE HOLLOW CROWN: Henry IV Part II | For @kingslionheart & @bouncehousedemons

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David Dawson as ‘Ned Poins’ in “The Hollow Crown - Henry IV - Part 1″

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Prince Hal’s call for an almanac is simultaneously mundane—almanacs were common Renaissance books—and extraordinary in that calendars did not take this specific material form during the actual Prince’s lifetime. On the Renaissance stage, this multi-temporal almanac could have been the issue for the current year, i.e. 1599. The printed booklet would contain information about the Prince’s future, including the dates for the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V. The Prince’s future is, of course, always a part of the past to the audience in the playhouse, but it would have also been part of the past in the pages of a printed almanac prop. Prince Hal calls for an almanac to determine the present position of the stars, but he would hold in his hand a printed book that documents his future and, in turn, encapsulates the tensions of representing past futures of the monarchy on the stage.