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Love’s Labour’s Lost (1985 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

Elijah Moshinsky

Producer

Shaun Sutton

Television production starring Mike Gwilym as Berowne, Jonathan Kent as King and Jenny Agutter as Rosaline.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

King Lear (1998 Television)

Series

Performance

Director

Richard Eyre

Producer

Sue Birtwistle; Joy Spink

Richard Eyre’s film version of his 1997 National Theatre production of King Lear, with Ian Holm as Lear.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

As You Like It (1963 Television)

Director

Ronald Eyre; Michael Elliott

Televised adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company stage production directed by Michael Elliott in 1961. Vanessa Redgrave is Rosalind.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

Ryszard III (1989 Television)

aka: Richard III

Director

Stanislaw Zajaczkowski; Feliks Falk

Polish television production of Richard III for stage by Feliks Falk and for television by Stanislaw Zajaczkowski. Andrzej Seweryn is Richard.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Record only

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1959 Television)

Director

Fletcher Markle; Peter Hall

A televised recording (although never transmitted) for NBC of Peter Hall’s 1959 staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. The production is prefaced by a short Prologue...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

King Lear (2008 Television)

Director

Trevor Nunn; Chris Hunt

Producer

Chris Hunt; Richard Price

A restaging by Trevor Nunn and Chris Hunt of Nunn’s 2007 production of King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Ian McKellen in the title role.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1981 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

Elijah Moshinsky

Producer

Jonathan Miller

Television production starring Helen Mirren as Titania and Peter McEnery as Oberon.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

Conscience of the King, The (1966 Television)

Series

Star Trek

Director

Gerd Oswald

Producer

Gene Roddenberry; Gene L. Coon

This episode of the original Star Trek series not only takes its title from Hamlet (II.ii.606) but also incorporates plot elements from Shakespeare’s play, or rather plays: an ‘old-fashioned’...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Online

Me and Orson Welles (2009 Film)

Director

Richard Linklater

Producer

Richard Linklater; Ann Carli; Marc Samuelson

Feature film. In New York in 1937, seventeen year-old Richard (Efron) meets theatre director Orson Welles (McKay), whom he convinces to give him the role of Lucius in the Mercury Theatre’s production of...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will (1980 Television, Video)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

John Gorrie

Producer

Cedric Messina

Television production directed by John Gorrie with Felicity Kendal as Viola and Sinead Cusack as Olivia; Robert Hardy is Sir Toby Belch.

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