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Original Title:	The Lion in Winter: A Play
ISBN:	0812973356 (ISBN13: 9780812973358)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry II of England, Richard I of England, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany, Philip II of France, John of England, Alys of France, Countess of Vexin

The Lion in Winter

James Goldman

Paperback | Pages: 103 pages

Rating: 4.22 | 9437 Users | 174 Reviews

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Title	:	The Lion in Winter
Author	:	James Goldman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 103 pages
Published	:	December 14th 2004 by Random House (first published 1966)
Categories	:	Plays. Historical. Historical Fiction. Drama. Classics. Fiction. Theatre

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Insecure siblings fighting for their parents’ attention; bickering spouses who can’t stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman’s classic play The Lion in Winter, domestic turmoil rises to an art form.
Keenly self-aware and motivated as much by spite as by any sense of duty, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine maneuver against each other to position their favorite son in line for succession. By imagining the inner lives of Henry, Eleanor, and their sons, John, Geoffrey, and Richard, Goldman created the quintessential drama of family strife and competing ambitions, a work that gives visceral, modern-day relevance to the intrigues of Angevin England.
Combining keen historical and psychological insight with delicious, mordant wit, the stage play has become a touchstone of today’s theater scene, and Goldman’s screenplay for the 1968 film adaptation won him an Academy Award. Told in “marvelously articulate language, with humor that bristles and burns” (Los Angeles Times), The Lion in Winter is the rare play that bursts into life on the printed page.

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THIS PLAY IS AN ABSOLUTE RIOT! It's Christmas time 1183 and the King of England is getting old....age 50....so it's time to decide if son Richard, Geoffrey or John will wear the Crown. Siblings are ALL fighting for the title from oldest to youngest and King Henry II AND Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, who have an on-going love-hate relationship, are in constant battle and disagreement. ALL are liars goading one another, scheming to make the best deal. The Aquitaine is at stake so the lies,



What do you know? My marriage has been immortalized. Good thing we're not playing for such high stakes.

2014 version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrfbV...

The love of power, the power of love and the power of power. Lovely. Those are the three things the play is about according to Michael Mayer, one of its directors.I've just watched two plays that have absolutely nothing to do with one another despite being pretty much about the same thing: a dysfunctional family get-together for a special occasion (Christmas in one, the grandfather's suicide in the other). The one is the Lion in Winter, the other August: Osage county.It's Christmas 1183. Henry

This is the play that the movie came from, and it's one of the most exciting and witty plays written. My edition has an interesting introduction by Goldman in which he relates how many people believe that the movie was made because the play was a big hit, which wasn't true. It was the movie, released over two years after the play had closed its brief Broadway run (with Christopher Walken as King Philip) that turned the play into a classic.It's Christmas, 1183, and the three princes, Richard,

Ew. We open with King Henry in conference with his mistress, wherein he argues that while he's had sex with just about everything and everyone (including little boys), he loves her most. That's pretty much par for the course. We have a satyric king, a megalomaniac queen, and three sons who are (in order from oldest to youngest) the closeted extra-butch homosexual, the overlooked middle child (+ all related tropes), and the snot-nosed Daddy's boy that the script described as "adorable" but