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Educational videotape. A teacher and pupil travel back in time to 1609 to interview Shakespeare over lunch at the Mermaid Tavern. They question him about the writing and performance of his plays - including...
A report that over the past 40 years the Royal Shakespeare Company has established itself as one of Britain’s greatest theatrical institutions. But recently critics have accused the Company of bad...
Film (probably a newsfilm item) of acclaimed Dutch actor Louis Bouwmeester in his dressing room at the Rialto theatre, Amsterdam making-up for his role as Shylock. Directed by Willy Mullens.
Radio broadcast. Excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays featured in two successive programmes containing a selection of various items, transmitted at 6.40 pm and 8 pm respectively.
Feature film version of Hamlet. Recording of a stage production.
A modern interpretation by the English Shakespeare Company, recorded at the Grand Theatre, Swansea before a live audience. The seven plays in the ‘Wars of the Roses’ cycle were performed over seven...
Radio broadcast. First of three interval talks in which various artists talk about their personal appreciation of Shakespeare. In this episode actor Donald Wolfit looks back on 40 years of acting and...
In this radio programme Derek Jacobi, who played Hamlet in the BBC TV production, gives a personal introduction to the play. He examines the many interpretations of a role that has been regarded as the...
Feature film. A recording of a St James’s Theatre production with Matheson Lang as Shylock.
Educational series. One in a twelve-part series of films made by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (now TV Ontario). The aim was to relate ‘Shakespeare’s timeless ideas and understanding...
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