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Drama critic Harold Child continues the radio talks series, focusing on how Shakespeare was staged in the eighteenth century.
Short feature. The film imagines that at the end of Romeo and Juliet Romeo does not die; the poison the apothecary sold him was watered down. Romeo now works at the supermarket checkout.
Other songs are ‘How can the tree’ by Vaux, ‘Blame not the lute’ by Wyatt; ‘Can she excuse my wrongs?', ‘Come again sweet love doth now invite’ and ‘Flow my tears’ by Dowland; ‘It fell on...
Fiction film comedy concerning a ham actor (Humphrey) who, with his company, leaves town without paying his hotel bill. Pursued by a policemen he takes refuge in a private house where he stumbles upon some...
Educational series. One in a twelve-part series of films made by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (now TV Ontario). The aim was to relate ‘Shakespeare’s timeless ideas and understanding...
Radio talk by George Watson, Assistant lecturer in English at Cambridge University, in reply to L. C. Knights’ book Some Shakespearean Themes (1960). According to the programme notes, ‘Watson criticises...
Feature film. What if William Shakespeare never existed... until now. Billy Shakespeare is caught in a love triangle of confused sexuality, cross dressing, mistaken identity, and bedroom trysts. Does...
Independent short. '...if we meet we shall no ‘scape a brawl, For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.' Act III scene i of Romeo and Juliet is re-imagined for the screen, but this time with a...
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