Richard III contains some of Shakespeare's most vicious invective. You can watch the curses fly in the Great Performances broadcast of The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses.
Playlist The Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses
Ruthless Kings and Sociopathic Geniuses
Daniel HautzingerBenedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Scott are in both Sherlock and The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses. Do their characters have anything in common?
Stranger Than Fiction: The History of 'The Wars of the Roses'
Daniel HautzingerThe Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses depicts the civil war that wracked England in the late fifteenth century, as told by Shakespeare in his plays Henry VI and Richard III. The real-life people that the characters are based upon led outlandish, legendary lives.
