Oof, a rough poem. I listened to the summary before I started so that I wouldn't be confused. It's pretty good.
One, the audio version that Missy and I both listened to was quite good in getting emotion across. There's a scene where Lucretia was angry and for that I was grateful. She should at least be able to be angry.
This takes me to my second thought. The whole thing ended up being surprisingly modern to me. She wasn't just that chaste, beautiful woman, her husband had boasted about. She wasn't meekly available for the picking. She was angry. She TOLD on him, which good for her. I had been worried she would be found out and accused of an affair. She threw herself into painting, which again felt modern to me, but here is the proof to the contrary.
Even how everyone reacted felt modern. The men in her life did take her side even though the little detour into who took her side more was...uh, one way of grieving, I guess. Society took her side. They overthrew the whole government by taking her side.
I know there was a Roman Republic, but I often think of Rome as empire and the ones who treated the Isrealites as second class citizens and...well, Jesus and all that. Tyrants.
I KNOW it's not true. I've read and seen Julius Caesar after all, but it's always gratifying when you see that an ancient people aren't brutes as compared to our civilized democracy. Also that trad dads and Bronze Age Pervert or whoever are wrong about the historical past and they'd be driven out of a Roman Republic town on a splintery rail (probably dead as a doornail if this poem is any indication) for trying the "your body, my choice" garbage.
Henry VI part 2 next.
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