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Michael Pennington is a great Shakespearean actor who deserves to be far more famous than he is. I was just watching clips from Michael Bogdanov's English National Theatre production of Richard II where he plays the king opposite Clyde Pollitt's Gaunt. Another reversal, but this time a more welcome one. He's still marvelous as ever.
The speech is a criticism of Richard II and his policies. The speech echoes the ideas of Athelstan (that the England is a nation-state of defence) and ties in with Elizabeth I's speech at Tilbury (the actual speech not the Cate Blanchett movie speech).
Wonderful interjection of inappropriate laughter at the end there. Normally I find myself rolling my eyes at the stony silence when the audience doesn't understand the obvious humour. This time it is reversed. Great. STFU.
What a wonderful interpretation of such a brilliant speech.
So many famous phrases - this sceptered isle, this happy breed, this earth, this realm - this England!
Eileen Pollock. Exactly, just what I was thinking, who can forget them. Could be a Churchill speech.
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
Michael Pennington is a great Shakespearean actor who deserves to be far more famous than he is. I was just watching clips from Michael Bogdanov's English National Theatre production of Richard II where he plays the king opposite Clyde Pollitt's Gaunt. Another reversal, but this time a more welcome one. He's still marvelous as ever.
I suppose a warning to all that your little demi- paradise can be easily toppled when there is corruption at the top!
All the spit ejected on "Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it"
I saw this last year in NY. I was really disappointed to find that Michael Pennington was replaced by Julian Glover.
Same Michael Pennington who played Moff Jerjerrod in The Return of the Jedi.
You kneel before Darth Vader in 1982 and your career is made forever.
And the real name, I believe, of Johnny Vegas!
Wow
WTF was laughing at the end?
Was Geilgud better?
How incredibly prophetic --- "That England that was wont to conquer others hath made a SHAMEFUL conquest of itself". Britain's epitaph.
marc roland. Just got to it!
The speech is a criticism of Richard II and his policies. The speech echoes the ideas of Athelstan (that the England is a nation-state of defence) and ties in with Elizabeth I's speech at Tilbury (the actual speech not the Cate Blanchett movie speech).
The immigrants are in their dinghies dicing with watery Neptune to get in.
pix046. Yup.
‘Against infection and the hand of war’ - well one out to two isn’t bad, I suppose
Wonderful interjection of inappropriate laughter at the end there. Normally I find myself rolling my eyes at the stony silence when the audience doesn't understand the obvious humour. This time it is reversed. Great. STFU.