{"id":10186,"date":"2014-01-05T17:42:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T00:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=10186"},"modified":"2017-06-28T22:03:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T05:03:46","slug":"the-hollow-crown-richard-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=10186","title":{"rendered":"The Hollow Crown: Richard II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One lovely gift to our family from my Shakespeare-loving little brother this Christmas was the DVD set The Hollow Crown &#8211; a BBC\u00a0mini-series of adaptations of Shakespeare&#8217;s history plays: Richard II, Henry IV Parts One and Two, and Henry V. \u00a0We watched <strong>Richard II<\/strong> as a family, and I was riveted, partly because I am fascinated by the characters, the history, the treacheries and regrets; and partly because I was wonderfully transported by the cinematography, and the performances &#8211; most especially the unexpectedly mesmerizing Ben Wishaw as the overthrown Richard II.<\/p>\n<p>[hr color=&#8221;dark-gray&#8221; width=&#8221;15%&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2px&#8221; ]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AXGkbBbXVSA\" height=\"480\" width=\"853\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><center>[hr color=&#8221;dark-gray&#8221; width=&#8221;15%&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2px&#8221; ]<\/center>I&#8217;m greatly looking forward to Jeremy Irons and Tom Hiddleston in the upcoming Henry IV and V. \u00a0Thanks, Doug, for the marvelous gift!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One lovely gift to our family from my Shakespeare-loving little brother this Christmas was the DVD set The Hollow Crown &#8211; a BBC\u00a0mini-series of adaptations of Shakespeare&#8217;s history plays: Richard II, Henry IV Parts One and Two, and Henry V. \u00a0We watched Richard II as a family, and I was riveted, partly because I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,92,124,175,598,232,14,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ben-wishaw","category-drama","category-entertainment","category-literature","category-netties-world","category-richard-ii","category-shakespeare","category-television","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10186"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10197,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186\/revisions\/10197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}