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Homo-Subtext

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Hollow Crown (The)

Country: UK, Language: English, 150 mins

Homo-Subtext | TV Mini Series | 2012
  • Director: Richard Eyre et al.
  • Writer: Richard Eyre; William Shakespeare
  • Producer: Sam Mendes; Pippa Harris

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Ben Whishaw's Richard II is a camp, posed travesty.

With a litany of acting heavyweights...a surprising disappointment is delivered with great big, generous dollops.

Shakespeare's words have been mangled with a delivery that will appall censorious ears.

The direction is static (and stagnant), the production design is lazy and quite ludicrous...

Watch Olivier's film...now, that's the way to do it.

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The(ir) Blurb...

New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a story with recurring themes of power struggles, redemption, family conflict and betrayal.

Cast & Characters

Simon Russell Beale as Falstaff;
Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal;
Tom Georgeson as Bardolph;
James Laurenson as Westmoreland;
Julie Walters as Mistress Quickly;
Alun Armstrong as Northumberland;
Will Attenborough as Gloucester;
Conrad Asquith as Bracy;
Ian Conningham as Peto;
David Dawson as Poins

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2262456