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Hollow Crown soaks up Shakespeare's swordplay but loses some of his punch by Michael Billington

Part two of the BBC's Wars of the Roses series was a visual treat led by a brooding Benedict Cumberbatch, but poignancy was among the script's many casualtiesLast week's opening episode of the Hollow Crown's Wars of the Roses cycle on the BBC was magnificent. In the second part, which was beautifully filmed by Dominic Cooke, baronial power struggles gave way to the chaos of civil war and we got a seemingly endless cy…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:50PM on May 14, 2016

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