title: King Henry V (Shakespeare in Production)
author: Emma Smith
description: "...a valuable addition to a useful series." Shakespeare Quarterly
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  KINGA FÖLDVÁRY
  ‘Sad Stories of the Death of Kings’: The
  Hollow Crown and the Shakespearean
  History Play on Screen
  Looking back at the history of the moving image, we may notice a curiously
  uneven attention to adaptations of Shakespeare’s histories. The genre
  boasts a number of ﬁrsts: the ﬁrst Shakespeare play recorded, even if only
  partially, on screen was King John, advertising Herbert Beerbohm Tree’s
  production in 1899, and the ﬁrst feature ﬁlm based on a Shakespearean play
  was James Keane’s 1912 Richard III, starring Frederick Warde. A few of
  the plays have inspired award-winning ﬁlms by the greatest actor-directors
  of the twentieth century, notably Henry V by Laurence Olivier (1944) and
  Kenneth Branagh (1989), Richard III by Olivier (1955), the Henry IV plays
  by Orson Welles in his Chimes at Midnight (1965); others have been
  popularised by star-studded casts, as in Richard Loncraine’s Richard III
  (1995). Some of the plays, however, have been completely absent from the
  silver scre