Talk:Pastime with Good Company

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[edit] GA

The article looks quite good. A solid copy-edit will be needed to linger out any deficiencies with the prose, and the historical context section could use some citations. Those two issues are relatively minor, but need to be addressed; otherwise, it meets the criteria and has been flagges as a GA. — Deckiller 19:12, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Folk song?

I know that it's technically correct, but there's something strangely and horribly wrong with referring to a piece of music composed by a monarch as a folk song. Henry VIII was many things, but just plain folks isn't one of them.Ninquerinquar 01:06, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Use of Shakespeare wrong

There is one very noticeable gaffe in the article as it stands, in the sentence--

"Henry was considered a talented composer and poet by his contemporaries, as Shakespeare mentions in his play Henry VIII through Fletcher, the main character...."

For one thing, there is no such character in the play as "Fletcher"; rather, whoever wrote this evidently confused the play's characters with one of the presumed authors of Henry VIII, John Fletcher.

More seriously, the quoted passage has nothing whatsoever to do with the king. It is actually part of a song sung by one of the women of Queen Katherine, Henry's first wife, and the first line of the song--"Orpheus with his lute made trees"--identifies the actual producer of the "sweet music" mentioned in these lines, the mythical figure Orpheus.

I would have fixed this, but the best fix I can think of is total deletion of the sentence and the quote it introduces, given that it is quite irrelevant to the historical King Henry VIII. I did not want to take such a drastic step without throwing this issue out for discussion and seeing if someone might have a better idea. --MollyTheCat 01:59, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I've also added a "fact" tag to call attention to the factual problems with this passage. --MollyTheCat 02:05, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Problem solved. Phaedriel - 07:19, 3 May 2007 (UTC)