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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07d3ks4/the-hollow-crown-the-wars-of-the-roses-3-richard-iii& I post: 309769 said:... Dicky 3 tomorrow...
Wow.
Unfamiliar as i was with Shakespeare's take on this, but familiar with what actually happened, this has been absolutely fascinating. The 2 Henry's are quite informative as to the why's and who's, bit of monkeying around with chronology, foreshortening and all that, a few things left out, but on the whole quite fairly, even ambiguously, told.
Dicky 3 is a straight up stitch up. Interestingly i think Shakespeare embeds an admission of it -
- which is perhaps the only moment of ambiguity in the piece.Compare dead happiness with living woe;
Think that thy babes were sweeter than they were,
And he that slew them fouler than he is.
Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse.
Revolving this will teach thee how to curse.
Fantastic viewing whichever way you look at it - Benadryl Crumplezone is as awesome as you'd expect him to be - bravo the Beeb.