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OTD 1960 / 2012: #AnAgeOfKings Vs #TheHollowCrown – Henry V
Both the BBC’s hugely ambitious, brilliant Shakespeare Henriads did the really popular one on the same day (52 years apart).
It’s Robert Hardy vs Tom Hiddleston as the one Official Good King of the set. Shakespeare’s An Age of Kings – BBC DVD cover (they sellThe Hollow Crown (2012) – Ben Whishaw (beautiful Richard I
Hiddleston looks fantastic and has glorious weight in speeches and in battle, but doesn’t look like he’s enjoying himself nearly as much as Hardy, who gets his big matches with Sean Connery and Judi Dench* and whose St Crispin’s Day speech is the most rousing I’ve seen. An Age of Kings – Sean Connery vs Robert Hardy
Mores have changed so that Falstaff was still a big draw in 1960, but he’s just drunk and unappealing in the later version to the extent you can’t see what they see in him.

*I think Dench is the one actor in both series (though not on July 21). An Age of Kings – Robert Hardy chats up Judi DenchThe Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses (2016) – support i
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