Shakespeare's Richard III (Andrew Jarvis, 1990) 1 of 20

Barry Stanton ... narrator
Philip Bowen as King Edward
John Dougall as Clarence
Anne Penfold as Lady Grey
June Watson as Queen Margaret
Andrew Jarvis as Richard Duke of Gloucester, Richard III

Director Michael Bogdanov

"The Wars 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.

The English Shakespeare Company adapted the three Henry VI plays to Henry VI "House of Lancaster", and Henry VI "House of York". These are the prelude to "Richard III".

All performances were recorded at the Swansea Theatre before a live audience.

Stanley Wells (from Shakespeare Survey 43) writes of this production:

Margaret's first appearance in this civilian world, in an old khaki uniform absurdly covered with medals, showed her unwillingness to forget the past and her inability to learn from it. Her society, likewise unable to learn, would be condemned to repeat the same errors over and over. Against this gruesome background, however, the anarchic humor or Richard of Glouchester (Andrew Jarvis), and his deliberate, deceptive, self-presentation as the blunt Yorkshireman ('eh, by gum!') emerged as a positive relief.

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[shmoogle14]

Is this available on DVD?

[ShakespeareAndMore]

Films for the Humanities & Sciences offers the seven plays of this production of "The Wars of the Roses" on DVD or VHS for $699.65 USD, or $99.95 for each play.

[TheImpossibleMan]

1:44 

[vicentedecordova]

@MrPigs0 No, but I believe you are.

[MrPigs0]

is this an amateur production? 

[Skybaby79]

4:42 'Hello all hello------Wait whaaa?'

LOL

[kratzenburg]

£50 for a DVD?! I'd rather watch the play here on YouTube than pay for a copy of it on DVD

for that price!

[RichieEastside]

Thanks for uploading, much appreciated!!

[BuzzBuzzize]

Wow! Thats a lot of money! Think I'll try find them somewhere else! I love their prologue to the play, it's very clever!