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Radio adaptation of Hamlet broadcast in two parts. Directed by Vernon Radcliffe and adapted for radio by Charles Warburton.
Very brief extract showing scenes from the 1931 Norman Bel Geddes’ Broadway production of Hamlet with Raymond Massey as Hamlet and Celia Johnson as Ophelia. This was Celia Johnson’s only Broadway...
Feature film. Remake of the 1931 film of a sensitive student (Manuela) in an authoritarian Prussian school whose friendship with a mysterious and beautiful teacher is interpreted as lesbianism. Manuela...
Anthology arts series. Documentary on Robert Stephens’ acclaimed performance as Lear in Adrian Noble’s 1993 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The programme follows Stephens through an entire...
Slide set. Between 1906 and his death in 1931, Charles Ricketts was the foremost practising designer of his generation in England working with Shaw, Granville Barker, Yeats and Sybil Thorndike. The slides...
Feature film. Simonetta, the wife of the celebrated Italian actor Silvio Steno, spends time with his best friend Scipione while Steno prepares for a production of Othello. Simonetta and Scipione go to the...
Televised studio production of play originally written for the stage by British playwright and novelist Winifred Ashton whose nom de plume was Clemence Dane (1888-1965). The plot links Shakespeare and the...
Gert Hofmann’s radio drama re-visits the story of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, examining the myth of everlasting love. Through divine intervention by Jupiter, the lovers in Hofmann’s version do not...
Silent Chinese feature film based on The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Two young men graduate from a Shanghai military academy, and one Hu Luting (Valentine) accepts a posting in Guangzhou, chiding his friend...
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