Henry IV, Part 2 (1990, Michael Bogdanov) part 9 of 15

Shakespeare's "King Henry IV, Part 2" from "The War of the Roses" (English Shakespeare Company, UK, 1990) is a direct filming, from the stage, of Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington's 7-play sequence based on Shakespeare's history plays.


Silence - Philip Bowen
Robert Shallow - Clyde Pollitt
Falstaff - Barry Stanton
Bardolph - Colin Farrell (actor born 1938)
Lord Hastings - Jack Carr
Earl of Westmoreland - Ben Bazell
Lord Mowbray - Michael Fenner
Prince John of Lancaster - John Dougall

Director Michael Bogdanov

Commentary By Henry Norman Hudson:

I must add, that with Shallow and Silence for his theme Falstaff's wit fairly grows gigantic, and this too without any abatement of its frolicsome agility. The strain of humorous exaggeration with which he pursues the theme in soliloquy is indeed almost sublime. Yet in some of his reflections thereon, as in the passage just quoted, we have a clear though brief view of the profound philosopher underlying the profligate humourist and make-sport; for he there discovers a breadth and sharpness of observation, and a depth of practical sagacity, such as might have placed him in the front rank of statesmen and sages.

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