Second Breakfast: Brush Up Your Shakespeare 18: The Hollow Crown (Part 6)

Last week, I gave a resoundingly negative review to the BBC’s continuation of The Hollow Crown series. Their rendition of Henry VI, Part 1 was actually an adaptation of Part 1 and Part 2, and cut out over fifty percent of the two plays, and was otherwise just kind of terrible. That didn’t leave me…

Second Breakfast: Brush Up Your Shakespeare 17: The Hollow Crown (Part 5)

A few years ago the BBC adapted Shakespeare’s first four canonical histories Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, and Henry V under the collective title of The Hollow Crown, and a little while after that I reviewed each installment as part of my ongoing Brush Up Your Shakespeare series. Well, the BBC recently…

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Second Breakfast: Brush Up Your Shakespeare 18: The Hollow Crown (Part 6)

Second Breakfast: Brush Up Your Shakespeare 17: The Hollow Crown (Part 5)