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British television comedy series. The episodes features a sketch which presents the first underwater production of Measure For Measure. Dubbed over an expanse of sea is muffled Shakespearean blank verse. The...
Television documentary celebrating the work of Paul Scofield. Includes footage of Scofield on tour in Romania with the RSC production of King Lear directed by Peter Brook in 1964. Shots of the cast getting...
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 1 - Joe MacFadden reads sonnet 18 ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s...
BBC current affairs programme . In this episode presenter Bob Wellings reports on ‘Fire Angel’, a new British rock musical loosely based on The Merchant of Venice. Composed by Roger Haines with lyrics by...
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 2 - David Walliams performs ‘In my stars I am above thee’ from Twelfth...
Televised adaptation of the play in which the mise en scene was inspired by Italian Renaissance art, a practice which subsequently distinguished director Cedric Messina’s productions for the BBC Television...
Documentary. Ethan Hawke presents a documentary on Macbeth. Excerpts: MACBETH (CBC, 1962) d. Paul Almond. MACBETH (1971) d. Polanski. MACBETH (2001) d. Doran. MACBETH (2010) d. Goold. There is also a...
Arts documentary. With five major productions taking place in 2016, the film looks at why King Lear resonates so deeply with contemporary audiences. Don Warrington, Antony Sher, Timothy West, Michael...
First episode of a nine-part BBC television series comprising three of Shakespeare’s Roman plays - Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra. This episode covers the first Act of Coriolanus.
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.