The text has been cut and rearranged characters have been conflated, the odd line of dialogue reassigned, the boundaries between the original plays erased. They’ve compressed four plays into three, combining the less-staged “Henry VI” plays, parts 1 through 3, with the popular “Richard III.” Indeed, such combinations seem historically to have been the rule, “Part 1” having rarely been staged on its own.
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The new series settles for one, Dominic Cooke, with the text adapted by Cooke and Ben Power (who co-wrote the screenplay for the earlier “Richard II”). The earlier “Hollow Crown” assigned its four plays to three different directors and came in a variety of styles. It recounts the history of the houses of Lancaster and York as they vie for control of England across much of the 15th century, and if you’re a viewer whose conception of warring houses comes mostly from “Game of Thrones,” these films seem to have been made, in part, with you in mind. Three years after the BBC filmed the four Elizabethan docudramas known as “The Henriad” - “Richard II,” “Henry IV” (parts 1 and 2) and “Henry V” - as “The Hollow Crown,” it picks up the history with “The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses,” which premieres in the U.S. Four centuries on, we’re still stealing from and staging him. Retrieved 14 July 2012.Shakespeare is the guy, your one-stop author for every sort of person and condition and situation - everything you need to comprehend the strange, messy richness of human life is encompassed within his collected works. ^ "Did the BBC repeat The Hollow Crown: Henry IV Part 1?".^ "Information on changes to the BBC One and BBC Two schedule on Saturday 7 July 2012"."Interviews: 'The Hollow Crown' - The directors of BBC2’s upcoming cycle of Shakespeare plays reveal how they rewrote the Histories" Archived 25 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Time Out London. ^ "Tom Hiddleston Battles in the Snow", Belfast Telegraph, 8 February 2012."At Home with the Histories", The Telegraph, 16 June 2012, p. "Richard Eyre on the Hollow Crown's Henry IV: from the pub to the battlefield". "Royals in Waiting", Harper's Bazaar, July 2012. Archived from the original on 30 December 2011. ^ a b "Cast confirmed for BBC Two's cycle of Shakespeare films" (Press release).Henry IV, Part II aired the following Saturday, 14 July. The start time was delayed by an hour because of coverage of the 2012 Wimbledon Championships, and the film was subsequently repeated on Sunday, 8 July on BBC4. Henry IV, Part I aired on BBC2 on Saturday, 7 July 2012. Although the battle took place in July, director Richard Eyre said he was delighted by the result: "The grass of the English landscape tends to subvert the violence of battle, so the snow turned the setting into this monochromatic world." Release The Battle of Shrewsbury was filmed in a field near Rickmansworth during a winter snowfall. Caerphilly Castle in Wales was used both for the scenes set at Warkworth Castle and for the meeting with Glendower. Scenes at Henry IV's court in the Palace of Westminster were filmed at Gloucester Cathedral. The films were shot on location and at Ealing Studios in London, where the Boar's Head Tavern set was created. Henry IV, Part I and Henry IV, Part II were filmed simultaneously from January to March 2012. Jolyon Coy as Sir Walter Blunt (Part 1).Dominic Rowan as Coleville of the Dale (Part 2).Mark Tandy as Sir Richard Vernon (Part 1).Henry Faber as Prince John of Lancaster.Stephen McCole as Lord Douglas (Part 1).Alex Clatworthy as Lady Mortimer (Part 1).Harry Lloyd as Edmund Mortimer (Part 1).Geoffrey Palmer as Lord Chief Justice (Part 2).James Laurenson as Earl of Westmoreland.David Hayman as Earl of Worcester (Part 1).Nicholas Jones as Archbishop of York (Part 2).Niamh Cusack as Countess of Northumberland (Part 2).David Bamber as Robert Shallow (Part 2).Joe Armstrong as Sir Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy (Part 1).Alun Armstrong as Earl of Northumberland.Simon Russell Beale as Sir John Falstaff.
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