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Drama, History 2 seasons 7 episodes Ended
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A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
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Richard III: Historians now dispute the extent to which Richard III (Benedict Cumberbatch) was actually the malevolent and power-hungry creature depicted here, but there can be no doubt as to William Shakespeare's interpretation - nor of Cumberbatch's either. With the sudden death of his brother Edward IV and his other brother Clarence having been reputedly drowned in a vat of wine, it falls to the young Edward V to succeed. His uncle, though, has other plans and whilst demonstrating all outward signs of friendship he manages to concoct a deviously effective plan to sow seeds of doubt on the legitimacy of this young lad (Caspar Morley) by suggesting his mother (Keeley Hawes) wasn't legally married. Cleverly, he ensures that it looks like he is responding to a public plea as he supplants his nephew, takes crown and so spawns the still largely unsolved mystery of the princes in the Tower. Even his own mother (Dame Judi Dench) is apalled by this action, but not so aggrieved as Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond and a claimant via Edward III (Luke Treadaway) who raises an army determined to restore the throne to the Lancastrians. It's a fairly well known story and this adaptation from Domin
Read the whole review on TMDBHenry VI, Part 2: With virtually nothing left to call English in France now, the ailing and mentally strained Henry VI (Tom Sturridge) returns home with his French wife Margaret (Sophie Okonedo) to a court that is just as rife with intrigue as the one he has just left. The King has been enthroned for many a year now, but that isn't going to stop Warwick (Stanley Townsend) from advancing the claims of Edward (Geoffrey Streatfield) as more legitimate by way of his lineage from the deposed Richard II and before. What does temper his treasonable intent is the decency of York (Adrian Dunbar) who having the throne at his feet, agrees to allow Henry to continue to reign provided he grants the succession to the Yorkist heirs. Needless to say, this irks his wife who brutally ensures the truce is broken. Now Edward and Warwick imprison the King whilst she and her son flee to the court of King Louis XI (Andrew Scott). To cement his role as kingmaker, Warwick follows shorty afterwards and proposes a marriage of state without realising that his new boss has fallen deeply for Elizabeth Woodville (Keeley Hawes). Feeling embarrassed and betrayed, he jumps ship (again) and promises to restore Henry
Read the whole review on TMDBHenry VI, Part 1: Now that Henry V has died young, the crown passes to his infant son who grows under the regency of his uncle, the lord protector Gloucester (Hugh Bonneville), into Tom Sturridge. Despite claims to his throne from others with quite possibly more legitimacy, there is a period of stability in England whilst the warmongers battle it out in France against Jean D'Arc (Laura Morgan). As part of a complex series of negotiations, a deal is struck that will see the young king marry Margaret of Anjou (Sophie Okonedo). It's a bit of an one-sided arrangement that essentially sees the King dispossessed of his French possessions. Back at home, and with the married king now in his majority, the conspiracy from Somerset (Ben Miles) and York (Adrian Dunbar) works to manoeuvre Gloucester from power and ultimatly restore the deposed Plantagenet line to the throne. The king's problems aren't helped by his wife's infidelities with Somerset or by Gloucester's wife (Sally Hawkins) being accused of witchcraft! It's actually Okonedo who steals the show here as the clearly ambitious and manipulative Queen; Bonneville is decent enough too, as is the underused Dunbar, but Sturridge doesn't im
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