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Henry's Journey by Hyarrowen (PG-13)
And thus ends my month of Shakespeare recs. I am thrilled to have had the chance to do this, and I hope that someone else takes up the reins. I've given you twelve of my favorite stories, but there are so many more good ones out there. You just have to know where to look. In the meantime, as our Star Du Jour would say, once more into the breach, dear friends!
Fandom: SHAKESPEARE -- HENRY V
Pairing: Henry V/French Herald (Montjoy)
Length: 21,000 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hyarrowen
Author Website: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1379714/Hyarrowen
Why this must be read: Oh, my. So much to be said here. Hyarrowen writes engaging, meticulously researched, lively AUs involving Henry V and the French herald. Her writing was what led me to watch Kenneth Branagh's 1989 Henry V, a modern classic. Hyarrowen's Henry is, as he should be, a highly charismatic kind of a guy, brilliant both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table. He's the sort of guy who just naturally steamrolls almost everyone in his path, but can make them think that the steamrolling was their idea in the first place if he has to. And he's utterly taken with the herald, a quiet, perceptive Frenchman much wiser than he lets on. Together, these two men are a fantastic match, and Henry's Journey gives them literally the world to play with.
It's a sprawling epic (a rare enough genre in Shakespeare fanfiction, which tends toward the short) that takes us from France to Jerusalem to India, China, and the Silk Road, still under the spell of the mysterious Tamburlaine. Henry and the herald are both changed profoundly by this journey and the people they meet along the way. To say more would simply ruin the pleasures of discovery.
‘You think this is hard work? You should try getting a giraffe to go on board.’
Giraffe?
Henry, who had been a king not so long ago, kept a firm grip on the headstall of the horse he was leading towards the gangplank, and squinted round in the bright Arabian sunlight for the next person in the queue waiting to load the animals. Jehan, who had been Herald Montjoy, took on an inward expression as he did the double translation, from Arabic to French and from French to English, and then he said ‘Camelopard.’
The horse jibbed again at the gangplank and Henry turned his attention back to it, although since it was perhaps the twentieth he’d led on board that day his own temper was fraying. But when they were back on the docks, and had found they had time for a breather while a line of slaves took stores aboard, he said to Taqi, ‘Tell us about the giraffe, then.’ The man obviously wanted to be asked, and Henry had perforce re-learned the art of getting along with people in the six months or so since catastrophe had overtaken him.
Henry's Journey
Fandom: SHAKESPEARE -- HENRY V
Pairing: Henry V/French Herald (Montjoy)
Length: 21,000 words
Author on LJ:
hyarrowenAuthor Website: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1379714/Hyarrowen
Why this must be read: Oh, my. So much to be said here. Hyarrowen writes engaging, meticulously researched, lively AUs involving Henry V and the French herald. Her writing was what led me to watch Kenneth Branagh's 1989 Henry V, a modern classic. Hyarrowen's Henry is, as he should be, a highly charismatic kind of a guy, brilliant both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table. He's the sort of guy who just naturally steamrolls almost everyone in his path, but can make them think that the steamrolling was their idea in the first place if he has to. And he's utterly taken with the herald, a quiet, perceptive Frenchman much wiser than he lets on. Together, these two men are a fantastic match, and Henry's Journey gives them literally the world to play with.
It's a sprawling epic (a rare enough genre in Shakespeare fanfiction, which tends toward the short) that takes us from France to Jerusalem to India, China, and the Silk Road, still under the spell of the mysterious Tamburlaine. Henry and the herald are both changed profoundly by this journey and the people they meet along the way. To say more would simply ruin the pleasures of discovery.
‘You think this is hard work? You should try getting a giraffe to go on board.’
Giraffe?
Henry, who had been a king not so long ago, kept a firm grip on the headstall of the horse he was leading towards the gangplank, and squinted round in the bright Arabian sunlight for the next person in the queue waiting to load the animals. Jehan, who had been Herald Montjoy, took on an inward expression as he did the double translation, from Arabic to French and from French to English, and then he said ‘Camelopard.’
The horse jibbed again at the gangplank and Henry turned his attention back to it, although since it was perhaps the twentieth he’d led on board that day his own temper was fraying. But when they were back on the docks, and had found they had time for a breather while a line of slaves took stores aboard, he said to Taqi, ‘Tell us about the giraffe, then.’ The man obviously wanted to be asked, and Henry had perforce re-learned the art of getting along with people in the six months or so since catastrophe had overtaken him.
Henry's Journey
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