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Trnka’s puppet pantomime, based on Shakespeare’s play, with dubbed-in English voices.
Actors who have played Hamlet discuss why they perceive the role as a benchmark in their careers. The programme includes stills and film extracts from performances by Olivier, Richard Burton and Mel Gibson.
Episode 15 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Henry V...
Combined book and audio CD. The CD includes Laurence Olivier in HAMLET (1948), and Simon Russell Beale as Hamlet in John Caird’s 2000 production for the National Theatre. There are recordings from Ellen...
A compilation of sixteen performances of the first of Hamlet’s soliloquies, taken from a variety of film and TV productions performed in English. Presented in order of the actor’s surname, they appear as...
Feature film which made its own myths as the love affair between Antony and Cleopatra was lived in real-life in the well-publicised Burton-Taylor romance. The hugely expensive sets, and Taylor’s protracted...
Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss the controversial Shakespeare comedy, The Taming of the Shrew. They also comment on some of the film adaptations including the Mary Pickford and...
Podcast hosted by Samuel Yeo, a graduate in Theatre Studies and English Literature from the Australian National University, Canberra. It explores the history of The Taming of the Shrew, from folk tales to...
An excerpt showing scenes from the Old Vic Theatre Company production of Cymbeline with an introduction by British theatre actress Sybil Thorndike (1882-1976).
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The curses associated with the Scottish play or using a real skull for the Yorick scene in Hamlet, over the centuries, these and other theatrical anecdotes have...
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