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Such Sweet Thunder (1999 Audio)

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...

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Heaven of Art, The (1980 Radio)

Series

Kaleidoscope

Producer

John Powell (2)

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...

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Hamlet (Excerpt) (1911 Audio)

aka: Ophelia’s Mad Scene

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).

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Charles Ricketts’ Stage Designs (1987 Multimedia)

Series

Theatre in Focus

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...

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Merchant of Venice (Excerpt), The (1911 Audio)

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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Iron Strain, The (1915 Film)

aka: Modern Taming of the Shrew, A

Director

Reginald Barker

Producer

Thomas H. Ince

Feature film. Octavia is a rich society beauty living in New York. Her grandfather, a mining magnate, sends her to Alaska fearing that she is about to marry a foolish city boy. There she meets Chuck...

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Teenager Hamlet (2010 Film)

Director

Margaux Williamson

Producer

Julia Rosenberg

Independent experimental film exploring how young people make art and morality in the city. A painter leaves her studio, needing to know her world directly no longer through making paintings. Emerging into...

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BBC Introducing Homegrown with Ras Kwame (2009 Radio)

aka: Hip Hop Shakespeare Winners

Special radio Hip Hop Shakespeare session featuring artists Bashy and Akala. Hosted by Ras Kwame. The five winners of the BBC Blast competition, where young adults between the ages of 13-19 were invited to...

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Das Publikum Will Shakespeare (1953 Radio)

aka: What the Public Wants is Shakespeare

Producer

Heinrich Koch

Radio play based on the short story ‘Excursion in Reality’ by Evelyn Waugh (1932), adapted for broadcasting by Olga Klaenforth. Waugh’s satire on the film industry features the visionary studio...

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Man in Grey, The (1943 Film)

Director

Leslie Arliss

Producer

Edward Black

Feature film. Costume melodrama, told in flashback, and based on the novel by Lady Eleanor Smith. A gypsy fortune teller warns Regency beauty Clarissa that her friendship with downtrodden actress Hesther...

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