Shakespeare's Richard II (1978 TV) Act 1, scene 1 (part 1)

"The Tragedy of King Richard II" by William Shakespeare. Act 1, scene 1, part 1 of 2.


Derek Jacobi ... Richard II
John Gielgud ... John of Gaunt
Jon Finch ... Henry Bolingbroke
Richard Owens ... Thomas Mowbray


Director: David Giles

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Entertainment

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• Shakespeare
• RichardII
• John-Gielgud
• Derek-Jacobi
• Jon-Finch

[spacekait]

Does anyone else think Bolingbroke is handsome?

[annenna]

Bolingbroke's voice is sexy.

[Nelsonhojax15]

@anna00024  I'm sorry...I don't speak monkey..

[anna00024]

@Nelsonhojax15 we panget ka nga eh sobra

[medievalgirl002]

"Henry V savagely slaughtered masses of Frenchmen" This would be iin the war that was waged to regain his righful ancetral possessions in France of Normandy and Gascony, which had been ceased and conquered by the King of France, during which war in own Brother, and many of hte Englush nobles, somw of whom Henry was realted to were killed by the French, alongside thousands of English soldiers. People in glass houses shouldnt throw stones.

[medievalgirl002]

@Nelsonhojax15 That is very true, but is also happened both before and after Joan of Arc.

[ponyfaces]

see bolingbroke in polanski's very excellent macbeth

[rickcoram1]

What's not to like? BBC Derek Jacobi.

Shakespeare. Enough said, I reckon.

[Nelsonhojax15]

@JudgeJulieLit  And the French slaughted Englishmen when Joan of Arc came to power, its all a matter of historical preference and I like Henry V both as a leader and a King.

[JudgeJulieLit]

Derek Jacobi was a great Richard 2, perhaps the best ever. As a great performance, rivals his BBC emperor Claudius. Like Richard Burton, he has one of the great theatrical melodic echoing recitative voices. His acting expressive, broad yet subtle.

[JudgeJulieLit]

@Punkrockaddicted Not a conscious emulation. But Derek Jacobi and John Cleese (and Anthony Quayle, this tetralogy's Falstaff) are of the orotundly melodic school and emote wonderfully R O U N D LY. Interestingly, Jacobi in contrast to John Gielgud (here, fascinatingly his John of Gaunt) who had long before emoted Richard 2 with an icy flatness that indicated emotional shallowness, bored disaffectation with yet glib canny satire of his two cousin throne-rivals, recent connivers v. his majesty.

[JudgeJulieLit]

@Nelsonhojax15 Henry Bolingbroke was gross and diseased? Then Jon FInch is too handsome to play him ... but too great an actor not to. But his paternity of Henry V was a "saving grace"? The historic jingoist invader Henry V savagely slaughtered masses of Frenchmen, his not too distant cousins ... chip off the old block(s).