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A DVD collection of four Shakespeare productions from Thames Television previously released as individual video cassettes. The 4-DVD set comprises ROMEO AND JULIET (1976) directed Joan Kemp-Welch with Ann...
Comedy series starring Tommy Cooper. Includes a sketch in which Tommy Cooper plays Hamlet. He begins the ‘to be or not to be’ speech which he interrupts with comic banter.
Four dramas exploring some of the themes from King Lear, including the relationship between Lear and his daughters and Gloucester and his sons. They take the form of two plays, each in two parts. The Mistake...
A production for schools of the rarely performed uncut text, in an Italian Renaissance setting. The performance is divided into eight 26-minute sections, for ease of use in the classroom. Young students 13+...
16-part television series, presented by John Gielgud, on the history of poetry in the English language. This episode follows Shakespeare’s development as dramatist and poet. Presents extracts from Romeo...
A television production of the play, originally in six separate episodes, with Patrick Magee as Lear.
Television Russian language learning series. This lesson includes footage from Innokenti Smoktunovsky in Kozintsev’s GAMLET (1964) and teaches the student how to say ‘to be or not to be’ in Russian.
Topical magazine show presented by Eamonn Andrews. Shows Marianne Faithfull rehearsing her role as Ophelia with Nicol Williamson as Hamlet. The television programme was recorded on stage at the Roundhouse.
Originally directed by Trevor Nunn for The Other Place, Stratford, the studio production envisaged a small group of actors creating the play before a small audience in an intimate atmosphere of the utmost...
Television documentary. Charts the realisation of Sam Wanamaker’s ambition to build a theatre on the South Bank of the Thames, where Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre once stood. Follows escalation of tensions...
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