The Hollow Crown is a series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a story with recurring themes of power struggles, redemption, family conflict and betrayal
In March 2014, the BBC set a tentative airing date of 2016 for the concluding cycle of The Hollow Crown subtitled The Wars of the Roses as a reference to the scope of the series. It will be based on Shakespeare's first tetralogy: Henry VI, Part I with Henry VI, Part II, and Henry VI, Part III condensed in one film and Richard III. In April 2014, BBC Two announced that Benedict Cumberbatch will play King Richard III
Benedict Cumberbatch has begun filming his role as Richard III in upcoming BBC drama The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses.
In an announcement made Wednesday (along with the first look, included above), it was revealed that Andrew Scott — who plays Cumberbatch's Sherlock nemesis, Moriarty — would be joining the cast as King Louis
Judi Dench, Hugh Bonneville, Sophie Okonedo, Sally Hawkins, Keeley Hawes and Tom Sturridge are also in the principal cast,
I've started watching it and it is good but sometimes it's somewhat hard to understand Shakespeare's language..many obsolete words and grammatical structures..so instead of paying all my attention to what's going on on the screen I have to focus on the subtitles and sometimes go googling what this or that word mean lol
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