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I added a link to everything on YouTube, and where you can stream those available for streaming. If nothing is written by a production, it means that I couldn't find where to stream it, but you can find it on the high seas. If I've written that I can't find it, it means I couldn't find it legally or illegally, and would love help to find it:)

professional filmed productions:

KJ

Stratford Festival 2015 (Digital Theater)

RSC 2019 (Marquee TV)

R2:

ESC 1990 (here)

Globe 2003

National Theatre 2019

Globe 2019

Globe 2015 (Globe Player)

RSC 2013 (Marquee TV)

Stratford Festival 2023 (here)

H4:

ESC 1990 (here) - two parts

Globe 2010 (Globe Player) - two parts

RSC (Marquee TV, Digital Theater) - two parts

Phyllida Lloyd's Donmar Warehouse trilogy (Digital Theater)- one part

H5

ESC 1990 (here)

Globe 2012 (Globe Player)

RSC 2015 (Marquee TV, Digital Theater)

National Theater 2022 (Marquee TV)

H6

ESC 1990 (here & here) - two parts

2013 Globe (used to be available, can’t find it )

RSC (2021-2022) (Marquee TV, Digital Theater)- three parts, part 1 is Open Rehearsal Project

R3

ESC 1990 (here)

Almedia Theatre 2016 (Amazon)

Sydney Opera House 2017 (can't find)

RSC 2022 (Marquee TV, Digital Theater)

Stratford Festival 2022 (stratfest@home)

NY Shakespeare Festival 2022 (maybe on PBS?)

The woke tragedy of Richard III, Dyke of Gloucester 2026 (here ) (abridged)

TV

An Age of Kings (1960) (here) R2-H5

The Wars of the Roses (1963) (here) H6-R3 - three parts over all

BBC Television Shakespeare (1978-1985) R2-R3 + KJ (archive.org)

Performance - 5.4 H4 (1995), 6.3 R2 (1997)

The Hollow Crown (2012) R2-R3, H6 in two parts

Movies

R2

The Life and Death of King Richard II (1960) (is it available anywhere?)

Richard II (1971) (here) 

Richard the Second (2001) (is it available anywhere?)

Richard II (1982)

H5

Henry V, Laurence Olivier (1944) (here)

Henry V, Kenneth Branagh (1989) (for US friends - it's available on Tubi for free:)

R3

Richard III (1912)  silent film (here) - just cool it exists

Richard III, Laurence Olivier (1955) (here)

Richard III (1995)

Audio

R2

BBC (1960) (here)

BBC Radio Shakespeare (2005)

Shakespeare sessions (2017)

Oregon Shakespeare Festival (2017)

H4

BBC Radio Shakespeare (2004)

Shakespeare sessions (2020)

H5

Henry at Agincourt (1956)

Naxos AudioBooks (here)

Ian McKellen (2011) (here)

H6

L.A. Works Theater (2008)

R3

Naxos AudioBooks (here)

Audio Production From Folger Theatre (2015)

Multi 

BBC Drama on 3 - R2-H5 + R3

Arkangel Shakespeare

Argo Classics Shakespeare: The Complete Collection

Loose Adaptations

Chimes at Midnight (1966) - movie (here) R2-H5

Falstaff: A Novel, Robert Nye (1976) - book - H4

My Own Private Idaho (1991) - movie - H4

King Rikki (2002) - movie - R3

Richard III (2007) - movie - R3

The King (2019) - movie R2-H5

Lady Hotspur, Tessa Gratton (2021) - book - 1H4

The Prince (2022) - recorded play - 1H4

Henry Henry, Allen Bratton (2024) - book - H4

Related

Shakespeare Uncovered (2012) -TV- 1.3 ∙ 'Richard II' with Derek Jacobi (cw authorship conspiracy), 1.5 ∙ Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V with Jeremy Irons

Looking for Richard (1996) - movie

The Lost King (2022) - movie

Because Claudius 100% wants the crown, but he's also not getting himself exiled. So there is no inciting incident, and Claudius is much farther in line from the throne than he is in Hamlet.

Shakespeare messes around with the Mortimers, it's unclear how many of them are cannon to the plays. Since Hotspur is Hal's age in the plays, and he's married to Elizabeth Mortimer, then Edmund is supposed to be Hal's age as well (so I guess we're still combining the Edmund Mortimers and pushing Kate down a generation).

So at the very least, if Roger is already dead and we only have the confirmed Mortimers (Kate and Edmund), and all of them are still teens, then Claudius would be forth(?) in line to the throne before Gaunt dies. That's best case scenario for him, he could very easily be much further away.

We know that Claudius cares very little about the actual line of secession from, well, the plot of Hamlet, but I doubt just straight up killing Richard would get him the crown.

Honestly being that far away might cool him off, since there wasn't a time in his life when he was closer. I don't really see Claudius pulling a full Kind Hearts and Coronets.

I'm also throwing it out there that he would probably get along Richard better than Bolingbroke did. I don't think he would get into the entourage, and Richard is a bit too much like Hamlet them to be very close, but Claudius is fun at parties and that's to his advantage.

I think the real question is where Gertrude is.

I she's Hal's dead mother, I'm honestly unsure how Claudius would handle losing Gertrude (definitely better than Macbeth, probably worse than Bolingbroke).

If, instead, Gertrude is married to Richard- then we have our plot. That gives Claudius a lot more motivation to *arrange* some unfortunate happenings and weasel his way up.

He's probably doing it alone, so he wouldn't be locked in the same dynamic with Northumberland, and once he's king (if he pulls that off) he could easily ship the Mortimer kids to Denmark or something.

Since he's hasn't done a full official uprising his claim to the throne could be either more or less legitimate. But he's a very good politician, so he has that in his favor.

Hotspur would definitely still be a problem though. Especially if his wife and brother in law are getting Hamlet treatment.

I honestly can't figure this shit out. Hal is coming out a more honest, well adjusted king out of this either way.