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A British War Relief Society recording in which Maurice Evans recites speeches from Richard II and Henry V.
Feature film. On the eve of World War II in Athens, a group of young people have established a theatrical group, planning to stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The outbreak of war, however, changes...
Feature film adapted from Michael Gilbett’s 1952 novel ‘Death in Captivity’, based on his experiences as a POW in Italy during the Second World War. In the book the play being produced is Rudolf...
A Mercury Theatre production. Stage directions and scenes not recorded are narrated by Welles. The Mercury Text recording makes no attempt to re-create the Broadway production. Also includes Maurice Evans...
Independent, digital, low-budget production, heavily abridged, with a re-working of Richard as a Rambo-esque war hero. This may be the first film of Richard II.
Documentary. Jennings’ deeply felt vision of life in Britain during the final year of World War II as lived by four representative characters - an engine driver, a farmer, a miner and an injured fighter...
War film melodrama on the theme of heroism and celebration of empire based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason. Henry Faversham, son of a war hero, resigns his military commission just before his company is to...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. A comment occuring late in this podcast : "Without Bacon and Shakespeare, we might not have won the war in the Pacific," states Bill Sherman, head of research at...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1992 production of As You Like It. Directed by David Thacker with Samantha Bond/Kate Buffery as Rosalind.
Cold war spy thriller based on the novel Call for the Dead by John Le Carre, about espionage in London. Includes Edward’s death scene (specially staged for the film) of a Royal Shakespeare Company...
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