So, this morning, when everybody have left the house, I have put on my Mercutio hat, helped myself with some red velvet cake ice cream, got out my Oxford Shakespeare, and - long live the Pirate Bay! - sat down to watch The Hollow Crown's Henry IV Part 1.
One word - mainstream.
There was some great acting going on, the decorations and costumes were amazing, and I loved of the some blocking solutions. But they have butchered the text!
They have done a very nice job doing it, though, changing the sequence of the scenes for dramatic purposes, and cutting out everything, that wasn't clear as the summer day. That, I am sorry to say, includes a great deal of Falstaff.
Henry IV is really all about Falstaff. And Shakespeare is all about the words, the words and people who speak them.
Here BBC tries to make the four plays that were, most likely, never planned as a single dramatic unity, into an epic story accessible for the masses and still fundamental for English-speaking culture. I understand why they make these choices. But, uh, great expectations. I think I'll go and watch the Globe production then.
And again, nice job. But now the tag "shakespeare" on my tumblr dashboard is full of Tom Hiddleston.
One word - mainstream.
There was some great acting going on, the decorations and costumes were amazing, and I loved of the some blocking solutions. But they have butchered the text!
They have done a very nice job doing it, though, changing the sequence of the scenes for dramatic purposes, and cutting out everything, that wasn't clear as the summer day. That, I am sorry to say, includes a great deal of Falstaff.
Henry IV is really all about Falstaff. And Shakespeare is all about the words, the words and people who speak them.
Here BBC tries to make the four plays that were, most likely, never planned as a single dramatic unity, into an epic story accessible for the masses and still fundamental for English-speaking culture. I understand why they make these choices. But, uh, great expectations. I think I'll go and watch the Globe production then.
And again, nice job. But now the tag "shakespeare" on my tumblr dashboard is full of Tom Hiddleston.
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