Richard the Second

This article is about the 2001 film adaptation of Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see Richard II (disambiguation).

Richard the Second is a 2001 American film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Richard II, directed by John Farrell.

Production history

Farrell used Fort Strong, an abandoned post American Civil War-era fort on Long Island (an island in Boston Harbor), as the location for this production. The fort lacked electricity and Farrell's production used torchlight to illuminate the scenes that were set inside the structure^[1]

Production took place between March and September 1987. However, the film went over its original $50,000 budget and Farrell was unable to secure financing to complete the production. As Farrell recalled in the book The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies: "The original intent with Richard the Second was to shoot in broadcast 1" format and transfer to 35mm. We shot with an Ikekami camera and used Sony reel-to-reel. I even did a test trailer in the edit suite which sent to a place in Los Angeles called Image Transform, which sent us back the trailer on 35 - this was when laser transfer was the new thing for video to film (no scan lines!)."^[2]

The film was given a direct-to-video release in 2001.

References

↑ Film Threat review
↑ The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies, Michael Wiese Productions. ISBN 0-941188-95-7

External links

Richard the Second at the Internet Movie Database
Richard The Second review on Pursued By A Bear

William Shakespeare's Henriad

Characters

Richard II	Richard II Henry Bolingbroke Duke of York Earl of Northumberland Duke of Aumerle John of Gaunt Queen (unnamed composite of Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of Valois) Henry 'Hotspur' Percy Duchess of York (unnamed composite of Infanta Isabella of Castile and Joan Holland) Duchess of Gloucester Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk Bishop of Carlisle Duke of Surrey Bushy Bagot Green Lord Ross Earl of Salisbury Lord Berkeley

1 Henry IV	Henry IV Prince Hal Henry 'Hotspur' Percy Sir John Falstaff Ned Poins Mistress Quickly Bardolph Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester Earl of Douglas Sir Walter Blunt Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland Lady Percy Earl of Westmorland Owen Glendower Edmund Mortimer Lady Mortimer Archbishop of York John, Duke of Bedford

2 Henry IV	Henry IV Prince Hal Sir John Falstaff Ned Poins Ancient Pistol Bardolph Mistress Quickly Doll Tearsheet Robert Shallow Earl of Westmorland Archbishop of York John, Duke of Bedford Earl of Warwick Lord Chief Justice Lord Bardolf Earl of Northumberland Lord Mowbray Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Thomas, Duke of Clarence Earl of Surrey Rumour

Henry V	Henry V King of France Louis the Dauphin Fluellen Ancient Pistol Mistress Quickly Bardolph Corporal Nym Katharine Constable of France Chorus Duke of Exeter John, Duke of Bedford Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Thomas, Duke of Clarence Earl of Westmorland Duke of Orléans Duke of Burgundy Duke of York Earl of Salisbury Earl of Warwick Duke of Bourbon Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of Ely Queen Isabel Earl of Cambridge Lord Scroop Sir Thomas Grey Michael Williams Sir Thomas Erpingham Duke of Berry

On screen

Multiple plays	An Age of Kings (1960; TV) Chimes at Midnight (1966) BBC Television Shakespeare (1978-79; TV) The Hollow Crown (2012; TV): (Richard II Henry IV Henry V)

Richard II	Richard the Second (2001)

Henry V	Henry V (1944) Henry V (1989)

Holinshed's Chronicles
Hundred Years' War
Wars of the Roses
Divine right of kings
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
Battle of Humbleton Hill
Battle of Shrewsbury
John Oldcastle
Battle of Agincourt
The Famous Victories of Henry V (c.1585)
Thomas of Woodstock/Richard the Second, Part One (c.1593)
Falstaff's Wedding (1760)
Falstaff (opera; 1913)
At the Boar's Head (1925)
Suite from Henry V (1963)

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