John of Gaunt chastises King Richard - The Hollow Crown: Richard II - BBC Two

Strange how most medieval media is about the English and not literally anyone else in Europe. Does no other country have their own BBC equivalent to produce something similar?

Only in 480p? Are you nuts, BBC?

This is one weird holodeck projection. Picard is one drama queen

It will truly be sad day when we lose Patrick Stewart. They cut out huge chunks of that monologue and I don't even care. His performance was still fantastic.

To know that this man also did the emojie movie.

John of Gaunt is my 20th Great Grandfather so I am so jazzed to see this ... and by non other than Patrick Stewar! 😍😉

Patrick Stewart-a man who can inspire loyalty for men to draw swords in his defense in the prescence of a king.

Man like John whips out a glock

Is this one worth watching? Or just the Patrick Stewart parts?

Patrick Stewart is the ham of all hams ! positively glows with " I am an actor" smugness - his pretentiousness is , along with Great Wall of China , one of the few objects astronauts have seen in orbit.

I ADORE THIS— such passion, and Richard, disdainful, looking “down” on him, proud, knowing not what is about to happen. “Landlord of England thou art” fantastic

A Great performance 🌷

Oooh, Patrick Stewart in my favourite Bill Shakes play! I'm sold.

God, watching this scene with this 2 excellent actors was such a pleasure !

Q! Q! DAMN YOU, Q! WHERE HAVE YOU PUT ME NOW

Every so often, someone flunks out of the Xavier school.

Can someone please explain to me why they always abridge and make it shorter and cut out so much. This is one of the most epic speeches in Theatrical history why on Earth would they cut Patrick Stewart's ability to render the whole thing. Why do they keep under estimating the masses attention span for Shakespeare they can wait...

Great acting Patrick Stewart, acting as John of Gaunt. It is said that our current Queen Elizabeth II is descendant of John of Gaunt and he's also the son of Edward III.

earthbound?

Of all the scenes that they dumb down and cut for the public this one shoudve been left intact.

"Now he that made me knows I see THEE ill!!!!! Ill in myself to see and in the seeing ill!!!!! Thy deathbead is no lesser than thy LAND!!! Wherein thou lyest in reputation sick!

This is the phrase I firmly utter to my cat after it steals my rightful place in the bed : Landlord of our house art thou, not king!

Just few days ago I could watch this here in Brasil, I realy loved, I don't now each seasion Iliked more. ALL cast amazing ... well, Richard lll is fantastic..

I've never seen Professor X being angry. Now I can see it.

Is-is that... Prince Albert and Mr. Francitelli??

Patrick Stewart is scarily brilliant at Shakespeare! His Macbeth was truly terrifying!

If Worf was there Richard would have been spitting teeth.

John of Gaunt - "There are FOUR candles!!!"

Captain Picard and Q! 😜

Whoever's playing King Richard is quite good.

John of Gaunt's giving Richard a warning: amend your ways before you lose your crown. Too bad Richard did not listen.

Ben Wishaw outshines Patrick Stewart here, surely a remarkable achievement. Wishaw well deserved his BAFTA for his compelling performance as Richard II.

"A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown whose compass is no bigger than thy head", that pretty much sums up every vain and ignorant so-called leader in the history books whose arrogance/fear led to their downfall.

Narcissistic rulers hate everyone who doesn't agree with what they claim, so they surround themselves with flatterers instead of having graceful temperance, and so eventually they grow so arrogant, addicted to attention and afraid of being seen as unworthy, that they foolishly self-destruct with other people serving as their instruments of self destruction.

Honestly Richard the second is the best of the hollow crown, because the characters in it : John of Gaunt, Richard the second, and the archbishop prophecize loads of the things that happen next which shows how well aware they are of how people, both individually and collectively, think. They also really reflect on how the crown misleads, tempts, tortures and ultimately lures to their despaired doom, monarchs, wannabe monarchs and might-as-well-be monarchs, and the consequences that await those that obey them and are related to them.

The show really does explore the idea of beautiful power being ultimately and spiritually hollow. The curse of craving that which you think you need for something you enjoy but are dissatisfied by it in the end for it doesn't bring you what you thought it would that you enjoy.

Of course, Shakespeare's history dramas are not historically accurate and the plays on English kings especially are full of historical lies and propaganda.

Still, it's really very educational in terms of ways by which people get obsessed with power, glory and wealth and how they damage others and themselves.

Wish I could see the entire movie, alas, I can not afford to purchase it.

And Richard ll had such a good start as a mere teen he quelled a peasants revolt,by riding in front of an angry mob. Great scene!

captain picard is getting out of hand here

🤍 🦌

Richard could actually spoke french. He could only speak little English


edit: speak*

THERE ART... FOUR... LIGHTS!

Brilliant

To Richard II:

"We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

"Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

"Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men."

--T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"

ben whishaw is so incredible as richard ii, i wish i could see him perform the role in an unabridged version of the play.

Richard II is such an interesting character, he goes from the height of hubris and opulence to the depths of despair and poverty. Shakespeare does an excellent job of humanizing him in the narrative. You start off rightly hating Richard for the actions he takes against Gaunt and Bolingbroke, but you eventually see things fall apart for him and you feel the loss of his kingdom to those who swore him allegiance. You understand that his plight, while well deserved, is still tragic.

Grandpa John of Gaunt, addressing the son of grandma Joan of Kent. Grants a whole new perspective when reviewing history, and historical drama, and a much deeper appreciation of it all. A salute to Sir Patrick - brilliant, as always!

I understood none of this 😂

The great thing about Patrick Stewart reciting this kind of work is he makes it sound like someone really is saying it for the first time.

"Landlord of England art thou now, not king..." pretty apt description of how the real Richard II actually ruled.

ive been saying this !!!! covid came cause we're all a bunch of fools who needed to be humbled like this king right here foolishness God bless us all inshallah ameeen

Richard II is my favourite play and always has been. Ben achieves something really special in this role. He is one of the best actors alive, I think. Especially after seeing him in Layer Cake. He's so completely different it's wonderful to watch him.

I can't watch the RSC nonsense now we know the language they use is false, & not the way the Bard spoke or wrote.

Truly, the hollow crown must be the most star-studded cast the BBC has ever put together