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Churchill and Shakespeare without Melodrama: a Response to Jonathan Rose

Sep

2020

By DAVID FORMAN

Churchill in the Cabinet Room, 10 Downing Street, a photograph taken by Cecil Beaton on the morning of 20 November 1940. (From “Winston S. Churchill,” vol. 6, Hillsdale College Press)

Jonathan Rose writes that the sea of Churchill's tastes was dominated by melodrama, but he misses the whale among the fish—Churchill's beloved Shakespeare.

Posted in: Explore, The Literary Churchill,

Tags: Darrell Holley, David Forman, Jonathan Rose, Mary SOames, Richard Burton, Richard M. Langworth, Stanley Wells, William Shakespeare, Winston S. Churchill,

Back in the News: Richard Burton’s Fraught Relationship with Churchill

Jun

2020

By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH

Burton played a magnificent Churchill in “The Gathering Storm.” He also played to the camera, alternating praise with vitriol depending on his audience.

Posted in: Churchill in Film and Video, Truths and Heresies,

Tags: Clement Attlee, Jack Le Vien, Jane Portal, John Beaufort, John Ramsden, Lady Williams of Elvel, Neville Trotter, Norman Tebbit, Old Vic, Richard Burton, Robert Hardy, The Gathering Storm (1974), The Valiant Years (1962), Winston S. Churchill,

Scaling Everest: Robert Hardy on Playing Churchill (Part 1)

Oct

2019

By T.S.R HARDY CBE FSA

"My panic was genuine. I felt I had no qualifications whatever to attempt a Titan. Thoughts of the friendliness in Churchill’s voice fled. Robert Hardy was to climb Everest in everyday clothes with an Ordnance Map."

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