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Short independent film. Three modern-day Juliets, while waiting for their boyfriends to show up for dinner, share three erotic dream-like versions of what might happen in bawdy Shakespearean rhyme. Lanier...
Radio broadcast. A discussion between Dr Frank C. Baxter of the University of Southern California and three fictitious experts. According to Jensen (op cit) these are a stuffy Englishman, an American...
Radio broadcast of Twelfth Night directed by Richard Monette. The recording is also available as an audiobook at Powells.com.
Fiction short. William Shakespeare wakes up from a strange dream during which he came up with the phrase ‘to be or not to be’. However, on awakening he cannot remember the phrase and suffers from...
Feature film short. A parodic version of Macbeth set in the world of contemporary Toronto’s business elite. Macbeth’s rise is spurred by the prophecy of three bag ladies; his fall is planned over a power...
Radio anthology drama series. The drama, narrated by William Conrad, is described as ‘an analytical misrepresentation of Shakespeare’s greatest hero figure...The drama judges the play’s characters on...
Satirical black comedy short. Elizabeth, miserable about her divorce, decides to kill herself in Shakespearean tragic style with many a soliloquy and a poisoned chalice. She is interrupted by the pizza...
Feminist satirical low-budget film appropriating the character of Ophelia as a metaphor for a young, unassertive woman. Ophelia has nightmares about the film TITANIC, is dominated by her father and boyfriend...
Bollywood Hindi comedy film version of The Comedy of Errors by Gulzar is ‘a genuinely insightful one’ (the Guardian, 2019). The story is set in Mumbai where Ashok and Bahadur arrive to buy a grape field....
Russian version of Much Ado About Nothing incorporating ballet and dance. Courtney Lehmann (op cit) writes: ‘This film is a curious hybrid that includes classical ballet interludes, a narrator figure who...
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