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A video recording of the stage production of Charles Gildon’s play performed by the Shakespeare Institute Players of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.
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...
Television arts documentary. Michael Hordern talks about the role of Prospero. He speaks of the challenges that the role presents, emphasising Prospero’s humility and compassion. He fears the dangers of...
Interest film. Shows scenes of London life including a view of St Paul’s Cathedral from the site of the Old Globe Theatre, followed by scenes from a performance of As You Like It played on a brewer’s...
Reporter Elizabeth Kendrick interviews Paul Robeson and Mary Ure at the Stratford Memorial Theatre where they are about to open the season with Othello. Robeson and Mary Ure are in costume being interviewed...
Sound recording. Duke Ellington’s suite, in collaboration with Billy Strayhorn, in tribute to Shakespeare, commissioned by, and dedicated to, the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. It was premiered...
Radio broadcast. ‘The sudden and unexpected revelation of Shakespeare overwhelmed me. The lightning Bash of his genius revealed the white heaven of art to me, illuminating its remotest depths in a single...
Ellen Terry reciting Ophelia’s speech from Act IV v 5. beginning ‘Dear maid, kind sister...". The speech is included in GREAT HISTORICAL SHAKESPEARE RECORDINGS issued by Naxos (Catalogued separately).
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...
Ellen Terry reciting Portia’s speech from Act IV i beginning ‘The quality of mercy is not strain’d...' The speech is included in GREAT HISTORICAL SHAKESPEARE RECORDINGS issued by Naxos and...
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