BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
Radio broadcast exploring who wrote Shakespeare’s plays, a question answered by asking Shakespeare himself. The host is Dr Frank C. Baxter of the University of Southern California and Shakespeare is played...
Television production directed by Jane Howell who was also responsible for the entire tetralogy (the three parts of Henry VI plus King Richard III). Peter Benson is King Henry.
Feature film comedy. Tommy Handley and friends are transported back in time to Elizabethan England. Among various encounters with Elizabethans, Susie Barton enters the Globe theatre and finds William...
Television production with Ron Cook in the title role.
Feature film. London in the 1660s, and a declaration from King Charles II (Rupert Everett) legalising female actors puts the girl-boy specialist Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup) out of a job. His former dresser...
Condensed version of The Taming of the Shrew concentrating on the wooing and winning of Katharina by Petruchio. Ball (op cit. p. 286) is underwhelmed by the film finding the camera stationary, the acting too...
A recording of the National Theatre production, directed by John Dexter, restyled somewhat for film, but retaining much of its ‘staginess’, Olivier doing little to adapt his towering and extravagant...
Television production directed by Jane Howell who was responsible for the entire tetralogy (the three parts of Henry VI plus King Richard III). With Peter Benson as King Henry VI and David Burke as Duke of...
Television production with Mike Gwilym (Pericles) and Amanda Redman (Marina).
Television production of the play, set in the year 800 and staged entirely in Granada’s Manchester studio, and one of the few not based on a prior stage production. With music specially composed by Gordon...
Learning on Screen