Cultural depictions of William III of England

Ballads[]

Copies of extant seventeenth-century broadside ballads about William III and Mary II, 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.^[1]

Art[]

White horses on display on Upper Grand Canal Street, Dublin in 1967

In Dublin city, the display of a white plasterwork horse in the fanlight of a door was believed to denote a household that was Protestant and loyal to the United Kingdom. The horse was a depiction of William's white horse, which he rode during the Battle of Boyne.^[2]^[3]

In London, an equestrian bronze of the King is to be found in St. James's Square.

Literature[]

Marjorie Bowen wrote three historical novels about William's life. They are I Will Maintain (1910), Defender of the Faith (1911), and God and the King (1911).^[4]

Film[]

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.
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.
Bernard Hill in the 2005 film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse.
in the 2015 film Michiel de Ruyter.

Television[]

Alan Rowe in the 1969 BBC drama series The First Churchills.
Laurence Olivier in the 1986 NBC TV mini-series Peter the Great.
Jochum ten Haaf in the 2003 BBC miniseries Charles II: The Power & the Passion.
George Webster in Versailles (2015).

Theatre[]

Carl Prekopp in the 2015 premiere of the play Queen Anne.

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.
^ Nuttall, Deirdre; MacCarthaigh, Críostóir (25 August 2017). "A 'Protestant folk'? Addressing a historical imbalance in Irish folklore-collecting". History Ireland. 25 (5). Retrieved 31 August 2021.
^ Cheng, Vincent J. (1991). "White Horse, Dark Horse: Joyce's Allhorse of Another Color". Joyce Studies Annual. 2: 101–128. ISSN 1049-0809. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
^ F. Seymour Smith, What Shall I Read Next? A Personal Selection of Twentieth Century English Books. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 0521064929, (p.95)

[1] 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.

[2] Nuttall, Deirdre; MacCarthaigh, Críostóir (25 August 2017). "A 'Protestant folk'? Addressing a historical imbalance in Irish folklore-collecting". History Ireland. 25 (5). Retrieved 31 August 2021.

[Cheng-3] Cheng, Vincent J. (1991). "White Horse, Dark Horse: Joyce's Allhorse of Another Color". Joyce Studies Annual. 2: 101–128. ISSN 1049-0809. Retrieved 31 August 2021.

[4] F. Seymour Smith, What Shall I Read Next? A Personal Selection of Twentieth Century English Books. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010. ISBN 0521064929, (p.95)

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Kingdom of the English 886–1066	Alfred the Great Æthelflæd ¹ ¹ ¹ Eadwig the Fair¹ ¹ Æthelred the Unready Sweyn Forkbeard Edmund Ironside Cnut¹ Harold Harefoot Harthacnut Edward the Confessor Harold Godwinson Edgar the Ætheling
Kingdom of England 1066–1649	William I William II Henry I Stephen Matilda Henry II² Henry the Young King Richard I John² Henry III² Edward I² Edward II² Edward III² Richard II² Henry IV² Henry V² Henry VI² Edward IV² Edward V² Richard III² Henry VII² Henry VIII² Edward VI² Jane² Mary I² with Philip² Elizabeth I ² James I³ Charles I³
Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland 1653–1659	Oliver Cromwell⁴ Richard Cromwell⁴
Kingdom of England 1660–1707	Charles II³ James II³ William III and Mary II³ Anne³
Kingdom of Scotland 843–1707 (traditional)	Kenneth II Constantine III (IV) Kenneth III Malcolm II Duncan I Macbeth Lulach Malcolm III Canmore Donald III Duncan II Donald III Edgar Alexander I David I Malcolm IV William I the Lion Alexander II Alexander III Margaret John Robert I David II Robert II Robert III James I James II James III James IV James V Mary I James VI ⁵ Charles I⁵ Charles II⁵ James VII⁵ Mary II⁵ William III⁵ Anne⁵
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¹Overlord of Britain. ²Also ruler of Ireland. ³Also ruler of Scotland and Ireland. ⁴Lord Protector. ⁵Also ruler of England and Ireland. Debatable or disputed rulers are in italics.