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Jul 21, 2020 • 46 tweets • 10 min read
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.
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.