Cultural depictions of William III of England
William III of England has been played on screen by Bernard Lee in the 1937 film The Black Tulip, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père, Henry Daniell in the 1945 film Captain Kidd, Olaf Hytten in the 1952 film Against All Flags, Alan Rowe in the 1969 BBC drama series The First Churchills, Laurence Olivier in the 1986 NBC TV mini-series Peter the Great, Thom Hoffman in the 1992 film Orlando, based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, Corin Redgrave in the 1995 film England, My England, the story of the composer Henry Purcell, Jochum ten Haaf in the 2003 BBC miniseries Charles II: The Power & the Passion, Bernard Hill in the 2005 film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, Russell Pate in the 2008 BBC film King Billy Above All and George Webster in Versailles (2015). His role in Dutch politics and his alleged homosexual nature was shown in the 2015 film Michiel de Ruyter.
Ballads
Copies of extant seventeenth-century broadside ballads about William and Mary, such as "England's Triumph", "England's Happiness in the Crowning of William and Mary", "A new loyal song, upon King William's Progress into Ireland" and "Royal Courage, King William's Happy Success in Ireland", are housed in Magdalene College's Pepys Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the British Library. Facsimiles, as well as audio recordings, are available online.[1]
References
- ↑ English Broadside Ballad Archive. "Broadside Ballads About King William". English Broadside Ballad Archive. University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of English. Retrieved 20 September 2014.