Well, it has been a wild ride. Henry VI, Part 1 was—for lack of a better word—horrible. Yeah, horrible pretty much sums it up. Henry VI, Part 2 was pretty good. It certainly did a lot despite the terrible groundwork provided by Part 1, and it gave me hope for this week’s rendition of Richard…
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…
Yesterday was William Shakespeare’s birthday. More importantly (this year), it was his 400th deathday. I feel like we ought to commemorate those more often. I guess it’s considered more cheerful and positive to do birthdays… yeah, fair enough. IMDb reckons there have been over one thousand films and TV shows based on Shakespeare’s works, including…
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