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Richard Eyre on the Hollow Crown's Henry IV: from the pub to the battlefield

by Interview By Andrew Dickson

For the BBC series, Eyre took Shakespeare's histories out into the country they portrayed, shooting on location to give a broad vision of EnglandShakespeare's history plays are all about contrasts: council chambers and battlefields, city and country, the corridors of power and the world of the streets. High politics and low life. And that's especially true of Henry IV Parts I and II. Half the time you're watching Eng…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 3:56am on May 2, 2016