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Shakespeare's 450th birthday: adaptations on the big screen

“What’s past is prologue,” Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest. And he sure was right—for the work of the playwright, who was born 450 years ago today, is still performed not only on stage, but also—to even bigger audiences—on film. To celebrate Big Will’s...

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In French: B. Cumberbatch sera Richard III pour la BBC

L'interprète de Sherlock rejoint la deuxième saison de The Hollow Crown, l'adaptation des pièces historiques de Shakespeare. Le futur sera shakespearien ou ne sera pas pourBenedict Cumberbatch. Après avoir annoncé qu'il serait Hamlet sur les planches...

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Confirmed: Cumberbatch to portray Richard III for BBC2

Confirmed: Cumberbatch to portray Richard III for BBC2

Cumberbatch and Freeman are the latest in a line of distinguished actors to tackle the role.IT IS the mysterious case of Sherlock Holmes and their parallel careers: Benedict Cumberbatch is to star as Richard III in a television film while Martin Freeman...

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The Hollow Crown 2 on the BBC in 2016

BBC director general Tony Hall today unveiled plans for what he described as the Corporation’s “strongest commitment to the arts we’ve made in a generation" with an extra £2.75m given to arts programming. Just weeks after announcing plans to move youth-orientated...

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Can only former Oxbridge students appreciate Shakespeare?

"Julian Fellowes has been criticised by Shakespeare experts for rewriting certain passages and altering the language used in the Bard's work. He rejects the criticism, saying the film was never intended to be a straight adaptation of the original. "When...

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Tom Hiddleston previews The Hollow Crown to be broadcast on PBS in the US

The Hollow Crown on BBC1 Breakfast: on location

Lectures (en français) de Guillaume Gallienne sur France inter

En écoute sur le site de France Inter. Jane Austen : extraits: 1. Sense and sensibility (1811), chapitre IX : Marianne Dashwood rencontre Willoughby 2. Northanger Abbey (posthume), chapitre II : la deception de Catherine qui assiste à son premier bal....

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Dame Maggie Smith

Dame Maggie Smith

Read the interview with The Star (September 2012) What she says about playing in a TV series: “You know, I think Downton is the reason that everybody thinks I’m suddenly so popular, because I’ve never really done a television series before. “ People think...

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Shakespeare on TV

Shakespeare on TV

The Hollow Crown: as good as TV Shakespeare can get? Read the article: link (source: The Guardian - June 2012)

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