So, how 'bout that histories trailer?

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It is a holiday and I am on vacation and also very tired because I have tons of sleep to catch up on, but I am suffering from conflicting impulses ( Read more... )

Working with Mendes on the BBC's "epic film versions" of Richard II, Henry IV part I and II, and Henry V will be some of British theatre's leading lights, including Sir Richard Eyre, Simon Russell Beale and Rupert Goold, director of Enron....The four plays have not been adapted by the corporation for TV since 1978 and 1979, during the BBC ( Read more... )

I just want to say that the the French commander's speech in the first panel of this comic is one of the most hilarious things I have ever read. I hope to use the line "They'll play a merrier tune later...WHEN WE KILL THEM" much more often in my everyday life ( Read more... )

Is there any scene in the entire canon that is more boring than the one in the French camp on the eve of Agincourt?

I find that particular scene remarkable because it is composed entirely of dirty jokes and snark, and still manages to be excruciatingly dull. I cannot think of another scene in Shakespeare that matches it for boredom.

I was rereading Act I of Henry V for class tomorrow and remembered this filk, which I wrote about five years ago (holy crap). Since my students are unlikely to be G&S fans, I thought I would repost it for you guys instead.

( Why we're glad Gilbert and Sullivan didn't write Henry V )

For the Yuletide guessing game thingie. a_t_rain said: "I would like a ficlet about Ned Poins, please! With or without Hal, Falstaff, and the rest of the gang, as you choose."

I am still waiting for prompts from reconditarmonia and kezya!

Title: He Which Hath No Stomach To This Fight
Play: Henry IV, Henry V
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Ned Poins (with some incredibly vague Hal/ ( Read more... )

Today, as eny fule no, is the feast of Sts. Crispin and Crispianus, and that, as Shakespeare has reminded us in unforgettable manner, is the anniversary of the battle of Agincourt. So here, for your instruction and delight, is Olivier performing That Speech:

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Those of you who dislike Olivier can go over to sadcypress and watch Kenneth Branagh's version ( ( Read more... )

So I just made an LJ feed for The Shakespeare Post, since Craig over at Another Shakespeare was talking about it today, and it was through these means that I learned that at the Warehouse in London there's currently a dramatic adaptation of Robert Nye's Falstaff(I hope they kept in the bit where he talks about how when he was page for Thomas ( Read more... )

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...except that the effort the voiceover makes to sound like Kenneth Branagh amuses me.