Comments on: ‘Heavy Is The Head That Wears The Crown’, Meaning

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 07:05:40 +0000

“The Shakespeare quote ‘uneasy is the head that wears a crown’ is from Henry IV Part 2″… Except that isn’t the actual quote, and the entry never explicitly says so. It explains the garbled variation using “heavy” but still leaves the impression in different places that “is” and ”lies” are each Shakespeare’s wording.

By: Ryan Welch

Ryan Welch — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 20:58:10 +0000

Although I am most associated with “heavy”, Shakespeare (or whomever the writer under his employ or using that pseudonym was), instituted the previously used prefix of “un”. “Heavy” is more digestible, but “Uneasy” is more terrible and powerful. From now on, I will stick with “Uneasy”.

By: Paul Molloy

Paul Molloy — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 21:43:38 +0000

Richard IV is perhaps only a character of Blackadder…its either Henry IV or Richard III. Methinks the former…just sayin’

By: Sethulane Mogoba

Sethulane Mogoba — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 01:32:14 +0000

I have ventured into writing a manuscript on my perspective of life and named it : “The business of teaching” yet reviewers advised the title be changed as they feel it is too telling. I then thought of” Unhappy lies the head “, only to realise that it is worsely loaded with use as it seems everyone who writes or is busy thinks of referring to it in one way or the other. It has been so overused that it has become insipid ! I hope l am correct to think or feel that way! “Unhappy lies the head that wears the crown “.