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Feature film comedy about a college professor (Webb) who is embarrassed when some silent swashbuckling films he made long ago bring him new prominence on television. He tries to stop the films being shown...
Radio play adapted by Tom Stoppard. Based on his original stage play, it re-tells Shakespeare’s Hamlet through the eyes of two of the play’s lesser characters. Rosencrantz is played by Danny Webb,...
Part 1: The Congress. A radio documentary introducing the 1st World Shakespeare Congress in Vancouver, August 1971 documented by Joan Coldwell. (a) Prof. Roy Daniells, University of British Columbia,...
Teaching Shakespeare is discussed by three delegates at the World Shakespeare Congress. Rev. W. Moelwyn Merchant tells interviewer Phyllis Webb that academics tend to verbalise even about performances. He...
Feature film version of the play. A bawdy and boisterous production, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, which reduces the play to the Katharina/Petruccio romance
Documentary on John Butler’s ballet. Shows rehearsal footage and includes a discussion by Butler and others about the ballet’s technical and dramatic demands. Butler, who was born in Mississippi, looks...
A personal introduction to the play and its qualities by Sara Kestelman, who played Lady Macbeth in the 1983 Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Barbican, London.
BBC Radio production of Shakespeare’s tragedy with Diana Rigg as Volumnia and Trystan Gravelle in the title role. The broadcast is introduced by Natalie Haynes.
A reading of an abridged version of Macbeth, with a cast led by Sir Michael Redgrave and George Baker, directed by Michael Benthall.
Television documentary in which presenter Derek Hart looks at the variety of music inspired by Shakespeare’s work. A small group of actors enacts some of the scenes. Includes music by Hubert Parry, Herbert...
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