...1965 playing an Austrian naval officer opposite Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music," he's played far more kings (Lear, Henry II, Henry V, Richard III, Oedipus and Herod) than captains. "The other day someone called me from a magazine to do an interview and...
...PEOPLE VERY NICE is a riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today. As the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis in turn enter the chaotic world of Bethnal Green, each new influx provokes a surge of...
...1965 playing an Austrian naval officer opposite Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music," he's played far more kings (Lear, Henry II, Henry V, Richard III, Oedipus and Herod) than captains. "The other day someone called me from a magazine to do an interview and...
...as we'll see anon), in the pursuit of his nationalist designs Hamilton had no compunctions about using what Exeter, King Henry's royal emissary who delivered an ultimatum to the French, called "bloody constraint" against his countrymen who preferred freedom...
...Indeed, Daniel (Peter Polycarpou) who has devised the entertainment, asks his audience, just as the prologue in Shakespeare's Henry V (and the title implies) to use their imaginations. What we're seeing, presumably, are the fruits of that imagination. The...
...if A Canterbury Tale is too English, how about A Matter of Life and Death? We don't expect to convert the French to Henry V, but life without The Third Man, Brief Encounter, Life is Sweet or Withnail and I is insular and impoverished. The French 100 Best Films...
...said. “I think he has got the whole nation under his, um . . .” Evil spell? “No, charming spell. He would have made a great Henry V.” However, he believes that the outcome of Strictly will depend on more than a facility for one-liners. “It’s a bit like running...
...distances? The statement in On This Day (7 November) that in 1783 John Austin was the last person to be executed in public in England is wrong. He was the last to be hanged at Tyburn, but public hangings outside Newgate Gaol continued until 1868. Those who...
...which saw slaughter on a scale that shocked Christendom and which, only this week, led some French academics to accuse Henry's soldiers of war crimes. A famous victory was achieved, of course, by English archers, and Cornwell's hero, Nicholas Hook, takes...
...("Once more unto the breach", 1 November). But his play does not support the claim that he covered up for his "heroic" Henry V by inventing a story that French nobles had killed a boy [sic] on the baggage train. Overwrought, Shakespeare's Henry in fact orders...