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Item from a cinemagazine. Designing sets and costume for Olivier’s HAMLET (1948). No further information known (9/2007).
An abbreviated version of the play. Ball finds the picture disappointing, commenting on the poorly handled crowd scenes, unnecessary invented action, and primitive photography and acting.
Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University) discusses his research on Shakespeare, the Bible, and Lucretius.
Television documentary. Follows theatre director Michael Bogdanov as he spends three weeks on an inner city estate in Ladywood, Birmingham persuading local people to rehearse and perform Shakespeare. Records...
29 of Shakespeare’s sonnets delivered by four young people (collectively and individually) in pastoral settingsas well as at the breakfast table, over the telephone, and as a stand-up comedy routine....
Fiction film. An abridged version of Hamlet which begins with the graveyard scene and ends with the duel scene. Hamlet also sees Ophelia’s ghost. Ball (op cit) writes: ‘It is easy to brand this...
Sixteen lectures by Peter Saccio, Leon D. Black Professor of Shakespearean Studies at Dartmouth College, Princeton. The course titles are: ‘Shakespeare’s Wavelengths’;`The Multiple Actions of A...
A videorecording, using a single camera, of Ruediger Burbach’s 1999 production of Richard II for the Schausielhaus, Zurich. Katharina von Bock is Richard.
A video recording of King Lear designed and directed by Robert Wilson. The production was the result of an intensive two-week workshop with Wilson, then Distinguished Artist in Residence at UCLA. The...
Feature film directed by Minky Schlesinger derived from the 2008 television mini-series broadcast by SABC1 which sets the story of Romeo and Juliet during the faction fighting that brought the East Rand...
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