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Episode Guide
Henry IV & Henry V With Jeremy Irons
Series: Shakespeare Uncovered
Series Progress: Episode 5 of 1828% Completed
Synopsis
In Henry IV and Henry V, Jeremy Irons uncovers the extraordinary appeal of Shakespeare's History Plays. He unravels the differences between the real history and the drama that Shakespeare creates. He discovers what William's sources were - and how he distorts them! And he invites us behind the scenes at the filming of some of the most important scenes in the new films of all of these plays. The History plays were the big hits of the 1590s because they allowed the ordinary men and women of Elizabethan England the chance to talk and think about power and politics without being controlled by the church or the state. In these plays Shakespeare appears to be writing heroic and patriotic propaganda - but as soon as you look at them in more detail, you discover that he was also undermining all those values at the same time.
📊 Series Binge Profile
Total Content Density: 16 hours 52 minutes (18 episodes)
Intensity Rating: Moderate Burn - Story-dense episodes. Best spaced out over a week.
Binge Milestones
1 episode/day: 18 days
3 episodes/day: 6 days
5 episodes/day: 4 days
Episodes (18)
- S01E01 - The Comedies With Joely Richardson
- S01E02 - Macbeth With Ethan Hawke
- S01E03 - Richard II With Derek Jacobi
- S01E04 - The Tempest With Trevor Nunn
- S01E05 - Henry IV & Henry V With Jeremy Irons Viewing
- S01E06 - Hamlet With David Tennant
- S02E01 - A Midsummer Night's Dream With Hugh Bonneville
- S02E02 - King Lear With Christopher Plummer
- S02E03 - The Taming of the Shrew With Morgan Freeman
- S02E04 - Othello With David Harewood
- S02E05 - Antony & Cleopatra With Kim Cattrall
- S02E06 - Romeo & Juliet With Joseph Fiennes
- S03E01 - Much Ado About Nothing with Helen Hunt
- S03E02 - The Merchant of Venice With F. Murray Abraham
- S03E03 - Measure for Measure With Romola Garai
- S03E04 - Julius Caesar With Brian Cox
- S03E05 - The Winter's Tale With Simon Russell Beale
- S03E06 - Richard III With Antony Sher