My life is just boring is all, so I haven't felt very inspired to update. BUT. There is INTERESTING SHAKESPEARE-RELATED NEWS that you may like, so I thought I'd post:

1. There's going to be a second season of The Hollow Crown, covering the Henry VIs and Richard III! I don't know if it's going to be released under that title or not, but it's the ( Read more... )

But all the same, have a whole bunch of Hollow Crown icons. They're all Richard II because that is my thing. All are freely gackable, because that is why I make them. Credit is obviously a nice thing to do. None of them have text (except for one) but you can put text on them if you like. Share and Enjoy!

( 31 mostly-textless Hollow Crown RII icons )

So I finally got a chance to watch the next installment of The Hollow Crown! I hadn't had a chance previously because I was visiting family, and then I kept getting distracted by the fact that Richard II was in the same file folder and I kept thinking "oh, hey, I could watch that again!" Plus it's been really good for taking my mind off of the ( Read more... )

The short version is that it wasn't perfect but was very very good, and also, it's nice to write about a Shakespeare production that I don't have to tear a new one. Also I am at my parents' house (I know, I know, shut up) and using my ipad because it worked fine at Kzoo, and it really does here too except that the lj app is kind of weird and hard ( Read more... )

So, how 'bout that histories trailer?

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First of all, I added a little bit more information to the post on the cast -- some of the people whose parts aren't listed are accounted for, though not all of them. (I got the extra stuff from IMDB and twitter.)

Secondly, there's a London 2012 promo clip on the BBC site with a few clips -- some shots of the duel!fail, Henry and Mowbray laying ( Read more... )

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... )

With thanks to fuunsaiki and speak_me_fair for the tip:

Ben Whishaw will play King Richard II with Rory Kinnear as his challenger, Bolingbroke. John of Gaunt will be played by Patrick Stewart, with David Suchet as The Duke of York and David Morrissey as Northumberland. Tom Hughes will play Aumerle and Mowbray will be played by James Purefoy. Clemence Poésy will play ( Read more... )

Some info on the upcoming BBC second tetralogy production (warning: contains stupid comments about female authors)

The BBC reveals today that Patrick Stewart, David Morrissey, Rory Kinnear, Lindsay Duncan, David Suchet and James Purefoy are to appear together in the first of a run of four big-budget Shakespeare plays to be made for television by ( 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... )