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Experimental short. A series of six short films based on Shakespeare’s tragedies conceptualised by a variety of film genres: Othello (silent film), Romeo and Juliet (film noir), Hamlet (classic Hollywood...
Part of a series of educational films intended to serve as an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere. Designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same...
A burlesque. Concerns feuding families who are finally reconciled by the love of their respective children, Romeo Brown and Juliet Smith.
Music-hall entertainer Bransby Williams filmed enacting scenes of a character from youth to old age. Williams had enjoyed a stage success with this performance.
Feature film directed by Minky Schlesinger derived from the 2008 television mini-series broadcast by SABC1 which sets the story of Romeo and Juliet during the faction fighting that brought the East Rand...
Feature film version of Measure for Measure. Lavish sets, lush costumes and hundreds of extras fail to redeem the film. Variety, reviewing the US release, notes bad lighting, poor sound and unhelpful English...
Independent short. Drama directed by Max Honert. No further details known (2/2012).
Fiction film. A cleaning lady is given the job of finding a horse for an actor playing Richard III; she provides him instead with a donkey.
Professor Mack of Yale University lectures on the play. Part 1 discusses the social structures, customs and audiences of Elizabethan England. Part 2 looks at the play’s three stories: the ghost story, the...
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