#jane lapotaire

[dare-g]

The Dark Angel (1987)

[weirdlookindog]

The Asphyx (1972)

[angevinyaoiz]

“And if I break this oath, may the God of Love torment me and never bring release until the day I die”

(Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, from The Devil’s Crown 1978 …Happy Valentine’s)

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Antony and Cleopatra 1972

[theghostofloganroy]

we should have had Connor's mom make an appearance in s4 but i guess her presence would have been too powerful for us to comprehend.

[tithe2hell]

Sometimes selfishly i pray to GOD they never make any more early Plantagenet or crusader dramas ever because we already achieved peak in the 1960s-70s and nowadays no one can make good Medieval stuff that looks good anymore, the sexuality discourse would be BAD, crusade discourse would be also BAD, etc etc, the ambiguous lyricism combined with the very specific political situations is never juggled aesthetically in a way I like, anyways wonder how the development is going on that Eleanor of Aquitaine Starz show that is never going to happen and is inevitably going to disappoint me with the cowardly lack of Momson

Been getting more of mutuals to watch The Devil's Crown which is great bc I'm kind of a gatekeeper but only bc I think only the goofy freak posters deserve to watch it bc they're the only ones who will Understand it......the YouTube ppl, you lost your access bc all u did was argue about Who Would Make A Better King in the comments

[marytudorqueenofengland]

Jane Lapotaire as Mary I of England ( Lady Jane, 1986)

[somebebop]

So I watched Richard II yesterday and this kiss will haunt me forever.

I loved this performance, there's some extraordinary acting, and not just by David Tennant. My favourite is actually Jane Lapotaire as the Duchess of Gloucester.

And David's take on Richard II was absolutely brilliant: the way he was holding his sceptre, the tone of his voice, the funny little remarks, the so very human vulnerability. He made Richard's story truly heartbreaking and very relatable to anyone who has ever experienced failure (making is literally everyone, right?). If you like Shakespeare please find time to see this production.

And as a GO fan I couldn't help jumping at this little episode:

5 years later he did get his angel, didn't he?

[nukethebees]

Radio Arthuriana

No, this is not a radio station dedicated to Arthuriana that I magically tuned into one night (although thinking about it...), but rather here are some Arthurian radio dramas I've come across on Internet Archive over the years. All these were produced by the BBC.

A Stone from Heaven (1995), written by Lindsay Clarke and directed by Nigel Bryant (!), which is a two-part radio adaptation of Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach and Perceval by Chretien de Troyes. Part 1 and Part 2 here.

Arthur the King (1990), written by Graeme Fife, is a seven-part series that pretty much covers the events of Malory's Le Morte Darthur, and the first episode features Paul Scofield as Merlin. Link here.

Arthur (2004), written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and Steve May, is a six-part series telling the life of King Arthur (not really based on any specific source). Ben Whishaw plays young Arthur and Philip Glenister plays the older Arthur, with Ian McDiarmid (whom you all know for playing Palpatine) as Merlin, Jane Lapotaire as the older Morgan, and Eve Myles as Gwenfar. Link here.

The Once and Future King (2014) is a six-part adaptation of the novels by T.H. White by Brian Sibley (who also did an excellent radio adaptation of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings in 1981 which I highly recommend giving a listen), and featuring the late, great David Warner as Merlin. I've not listened to this one yet, but I thought you folks would appreciate it anyway. Link here.

[period-dramallama]

An interesting talk but I have some notes.

1) Philip was devastated by Mary's death

Source?? We have the "reasonable regret" line which some historians have interpreted as Philip being relatively unbothered. That might be Philip's Spanish stoicism, but then again IIRC we have more evidence of grief for his other wives' deaths.

2) Mary fixed the debasement of the coinage

I understood that as being Elizabeth's achievement? Not that Mary was unaware of the problem, but that she didn't have time to fix it and Elizabeth early in her reign fixed it.

3) Mary's first pregnancy was a fetus that miscarried

Maybe I need to read more recent books on Mary. But if Mary really was pregnant, surely she would have noticed the miscarriage? And there wouldn't have been the whole business with her being late and late and then pregnancy is over?

4) Elizabeth 1998 depicts Mary as being naive, lying, or cheating on Philip, because of the line "the king has not shared her bed for many months"

Dr Strong ignores a key line in the scene she discusses: the line RIGHT BEFORE the line she discusses is this one:

"There are symptoms. She has ceased to bleed, she produces milk and her stomach is swollen."

So no, Mary in Elizabeth 1998 has some reason to believe she's pregnant. The skepticism is because Philip hasn't slept with her with a long time, not because Philip is ABSENT.

5) Mary calls Anne a whore to show depth of emotion

I disagree with the question that was posed that claimed it's historically recorded that Mary didn't know the meaning of the word whore. I'm 99% certain Mary was not that sheltered and the idea she didn't know the word is Catholic propaganda.

Also the historical Mary was not polite about Anne or Elizabeth's origins so it is accurate for BE to have her use those words.

Poor Daphne Slater. She gave us a Mary who felt like a real person, but she's overshadowed by Sarah Bolger. Jane Lapotaire also played a Mary who wants to spare Jane and Guildford.

[kimgmac63]

Merchant of Venice. Pictured are Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Brett, Jane Lapotaire, Jim Dale and Anthony Nicholls. 05/06/970

[kwebtv]

Edward the Seventh - ITV - April 1, 1975 - July 1, 1975

Historical Drama (13 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars: (brief listing) (Complete Listing)

Annette Crosbie as Queen Victoria (episodes 1–10)

Timothy West as Albert Edward ("Bertie"), Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII (episodes 5–13)

Helen Ryan as Princess Alexandra, later Queen Alexandra (episodes 6–13)

Robert Hardy as Prince Albert (episodes 1–4)

Felicity Kendal as Bertie's older sister Princess Vicky, later Empress Frederick of Germany (episodes 2–5, 8, 10 and 11)

Michael Byrne as Fritz, later Frederick III, German Emperor (episodes 2–5, 8)

Charles Sturridge as Young Bertie (episodes 2–4)

Simon Gipps-Kent as Younger Bertie (episode 2)

Deborah Grant as Young Alexandra (episodes 4–5)

Christopher Neame as Bertie's nephew Kaiser Wilhelm II (episodes 8 and 10–13)

Gwyneth Strong as Minny (young Dagmar) (episodes 4–5)

Jane Lapotaire as Empress Marie of Russia (older Dagmar; Dagmar was the sister of Bertie's wife Alexandra and later wife of Tsar Alexander III) (episodes 6–8, 10, 12–13)

Alison Leggatt as the Duchess of Kent (episodes 1–3)

Joseph O'Conor as Lord Melbourne (episode 1)

Michael Barrington as Sir Robert Peel (episode 1)

John Welsh as the Duke of Wellington (episode 1)

Arthur Hewlett as the Earl of Aberdeen (episode 2)

André Morell as Lord Palmerston (episodes 2–5)

Peter Collingwood as Lord John Russell (episode 4–5)

Michael Hordern as William Ewart Gladstone (episodes 5–6 and 8–10)

[yamy-brett]

Lovely photo of Jeremy Brett here with other cast members of "The Merchant Of Venice", outside The National Theatre in 1970: Anthony Nicholls, Jane Lapotaire, Sir Laurence Olivier, Jim Dale, and Joan Plowright.

[angevinyaoiz]

Look what came in the mail!!!

This is the clearest I've seen their faces not in potato pixel quality. There's a delightful little article in the back that isn't quite a review but more a "setting the stage" talking about Henry, John, and grisly medieval stories (Richard gets like a very tiny paragraph and not a lot said about his arc in this series.......makes me go HMM)

I can actually see their costumes more clearly in this pic (sorry for the bad photos qhality....maybe I'll scan them sometime)

[madelgard]

Michael Pennington as Berowne in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, directed by John Barton for the Royal Shakespeare Company (1978).

This review of his performance as Berowne is presented without comment:

[movienized-com]

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