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  • The Critic Magazine

    Romeo Coates

    Dec 23, 2020 4 minutes

    SHAKESPEARE — Worry not. Thankfully our greatest playwright would never have dreamt of making up royal history when it suited him.

    DICK TURPIN — Viewers all those years ago were made fools of. Real highwayman Dick wasn't anywhere near as likeable or entertaining as Richard O’Sullivan or Sid James.

    BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID — Similarly sad to report that the actual Wild West criminals of the same name looked nothing like Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Also seems they lacked Newman and Redford’s popular on-screen banter.

    — Twenty-first century TV portrayals have included Ray Winstone (Cockney geezer Henry) and ’ Jonathan Rhys Meyers (unhinged,

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