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A video-recording of the modern-dress Northern Broadsides production of the play directed by Barrie Rutter. Staged as part of New York’s New Wave Festival. Barrie Rutter and Ishia Bennison in the title roles.
Extracts from a promotional film which Welles made to attract financial backers for what was to be originally a short television adaptation. Filmed on location in Venice, Welles as Shylock (in costume)...
Video recording of Antoni Cimolini’s 2005 production of As You Like It for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival set in ‘the summer of love’ in 1969. Music is composed by Steven Page and...
Christoph’s Schlingensief production of Hamlet videotaped using a single camera at the Schauspielhaus, Zurich in 2001. Sebastian Rudolph is Hamlet.
Video recording of Des McAnuff’s 1983 production of Macbeth for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Roberta Maxwell and Nicholas Pennell are the Macbeths.
Video recording of Richard Cottrell’s 1983 production of Richard II for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with Brian Bedford in the title role.
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2016 Oxford University Press caused some controversy deciding that, in the New Oxford Shakespeare, the plays Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 would no longer be...
Feature film. An urban crime drama updating King Lear to modern-day Liverpool. The leader of a gang, Sandeman, decides to divide his territory after the murder of his wife in a street robbery. He would like...
Fiction film version of The Taming of the Shrew directed by D.W. Griffith with Florence Lawrence as Kate and Arthur Johnson as Petruchio. The film omits the Christopher Sly framing and much reduces the...
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...
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