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This radio broadcast of Verdi’s ‘Lyrical comedy in three acts’ was the first of six studio performances given by the BBC Opera Orchestra and Chorus under Stanford Robinson. The programme is presented...
Independent low-budget feature film. A contemporary adaptation of Hamlet, retaining Shakespeare’s verse, and set in an urban, alienating Dublin.
Feature film adapted from H.G. Wells’ short novel The Island of Dr Moreau (1896). The hubristic scientist, Dr Moreau, is banished from his home to a remote island where he proclaims himself the absolute...
Radio broadcast. Dramatic reading of scenes from Shakespeare’s Richard II with John Gielgud and Harman Grisewood.
Feature film comedy comprising seven sketches raised in the book of the same title by Dr David Reuben. In the first sketch ‘Do Aphrodisiacs Work?', Woody Allen plays a court jester; he recites a parody of...
Radio broadcast for schools featuring scenes from King John.
Radio broadcast. In this talk about Shakespeare’s sonnets and the problems that they raise, G. Wilson Knight surveys recent literature on the sonnets, particularly Leslie Hotson’s book Mr. W. H. (1964),...
The life of Shakespeare including scenes of his birthplace, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and landmarks of Elizabethan London. Narrated by John Snagge.
A recording of the play performed at the Delacorte Theater in New York City’s Central Park as part of the New York Shakespeare Festival. The production employed regional accents and an eclectic mix of...
Documentary/travelogue visiting 18 sites associated with William Shakespeare including the Tower of London, St Paul’s Cathedral and Middle Temple in London and the King Edward VI Grammar School and Anne...
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