I don't actually know a terrible amount about the War of the Three Kingdoms, much less the reign of James I & VI except how it relates to the work of Shakespeare, so I'd never really given the idea any thought before. But of course all the talk of killing kings made me think of the Baroque Trilogy, especially the first book where it's very much an elephant in the room (realm?), and something clicked for me.
But yeah, it makes a lot of sense. And it adds a certain layer of delayed family tragedy to the whole thing, not unlike Henry VI.
Yeah, the Prachett I've read has usually not been the Ankh-Morpork books. Though it's my goal to get through Tiffany Aching this year, for sure.
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Date: 2011-01-12 19:45 (UTC)But yeah, it makes a lot of sense. And it adds a certain layer of delayed family tragedy to the whole thing, not unlike Henry VI.
Yeah, the Prachett I've read has usually not been the Ankh-Morpork books. Though it's my goal to get through Tiffany Aching this year, for sure.