Title: Admit Me, Chorus to This History
Fandom: History, Shakespeare
Genre: Fantasy, Alternate Universe/Alternate History
Rating: R
Warnings: Sex, Violence
Word Count: 35,091
Summary: An alternate history or alternate reality, if you will, wherein what some might call a romance is played out between a prince whose passions are power and war and a girl who wants nothing so much as family.
Chapters:(
Full story on AO3)
A Good Heart Is the Sun (on
LiveJournal)
With Good Acceptance Of His Majesty (on
LiveJournal)
If It Be a Sin to Covet Honor ( on
LiveJournal)
Small Time, But In That Time Most Greatly Lived (on
LiveJournal)
Additional Stories:All of the additional stories which are listed here are set between 1400 and 1422. If a story is connected with a specific chapter, it will be noted in the header notes for that story.
And In His Wake, Death (
On LiveJournal,
On AO3)
Characters:Drawn From History:Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales, King Henry V of England
Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester
Thomas Beaufort, Earl of Dorset, Duke of Exeter
Henry of Bolingbroke, King Henry IV of England
Catherine of Valois, Princess of France, Princess of Wales, Queen of England
Henry of Lancaster, Prince of Wales
Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge
Henry Scroop, Baron of Masham
From Shakespeare's Henry V:Montjoy, French Herald
Thomas Gray, Knight of Northumberland
The Rest of the Cast:Blanche Stretton, daughter of Sir Robert, mistress to Henry of Monmouth, Princess of Wales, Queen of England
The Chorus, James Stretton, son of Robert Stretton, Knight of Warwick
Robert of Stretton, Prince of Wales, King Robert I of England, King Robert I of France
Robert Stretton, Knight of Shropshire
Margaret of Lancaster, Princess of England
Edward of Lancaster, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Lancaster
Thomas of Lancaster, an infant
Joan of Lancaster, Princess of England
Richard of Lancaster, Duke of Aquitane, Duke of Clarence
Elizabeth of Lancaster, Princess of England
Elizabeth de Beauchamp, wife of James Stretton
Father Thomas, a priest
Maude, a servant of the Strettons
Notes: A story I didn't intend to write until the muses insisted, and which has morphed from where it began into something I'm enjoying writing after all. Massive thanks go to
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hyarrowen for beta-reading and letting me babble at her; also to
auberus and
twistdfateangel for cheerleading.
All deviances from history that aren't mine are what I've drawn from Shakespeare's
Henry V, and in particular, the 1989 film adaptation by Kenneth Branagh. Having not read either
Henry IV, Part I, or
Henry IV, Part II, nothing is drawn from those plays in the characterization of any involved.
And a note of interest is that the English and their holdings reckoned the new year on 25 March up until the 18th century. Hence, between 1 January and 25 March, they still reckon it as the year before other countries which have the year begin in January. Thus, references made to the new year in the story generally refer to the English reckoning.
Kydicaus is the fifteenth century spelling of Chef de Caux, a place name for a location near Harfluer.
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