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Abbreviated version of The Winter’s Tale. William Shakespeare reads the play to some friends. The story is largely the plot of the play but Autolycus is omitted and there is no pursuit of a bear. McKernan...
A filmed record (with Beerbohm Tree’s consent) of the opening storm scene from his stage production of The Tempest. Urban’s catalogue describes the scenes thus: ‘This remarkable picture, taken under...
Fiction film version of Macbeth directed by André Calmettes with Paul Mounet and Jeanne Delvair as the Macbeths. The film owed much to theatrical convention. Ball (op cit) comments ‘Actors are forever...
A much shortened record of F.R. Benson’s production filmed at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford in 1911 with Benson as King Richard. The film makes no attempt to be other than what it is, a...
Silent film version of Othello filmed in Venice. Paolo Colachi plays Othello.
Melodrama. Alexandra Tranda awaits her father’s return. When the carriage comes up the drive she discovers his dead body hanging over the splashboard: he has been shot. Later her mother marries John...
Abbreviated version of the play but yet still straining to incorporate the Edgar subplot, the rejection of Cordelia, Lear’s rejection of Goneril and Regan, the blinding of Gloucester (off stage), the...
Fiction film of The Merchant of Venice directed by Henri Desfontaines with Harry Baur as Shylock. The film greatly abbreviates the play and omits the Jessica subplot and other incidents. Ball comments ‘The...
Shortened version of the play which depicts most of the main events but omits the Edgar subplot. Ball (op cit) comments ‘Without subtitles this film could not be understood at all...one sees only tirades...
Feature film in theory based on Shakespeare’s own sources for The Merchant of Venice but in practice partly Shakespeare and partly director Felner’s invention. Werner Krauss is Shylock.
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