James as Richard II. (X)I haven’t had time to update for awhile but I’m trying to catch
James as Richard II. (X)I haven’t had time to update for awhile but I’m trying to catch up! This photo is so beautiful I thought it deserved its own, new post. James Norton brings a moment from history to life as he performs a speech from Richard II — on the same spot where the real king was forced to abandon his crown.The War And Peace star read from the Shakespeare play in Westminster Hall for a short film commissioned by the Globe theatre to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death.His speech came from the deposition scene, in which the king recounts how he was forced to give up his throne by Henry Bolingbroke’s rebels.Westminster Hall was built in 1097 by the son of William the Conqueror and extensively restored by Richard II. He was deposed there on September 30, 1399. -- source link
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