Shakespeare outdoes Game of Thrones in the BBC's Hollow Crown
The Henry VI plays are condensed into two servings of power battles, sex and witchcraft with fine performances from Hugh Bonneville and Sophie OkonedoShakespeare's early histories used to be written off. Harold Bloom, in his massive book on Shakespeare, devotes a derisory seven pages to the three Henry VI plays and tells us "they do not live now". But, as RSC revivals of the complete trilogy by Michael Boyd and Terry…