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Feature film. A gangsta version of Macbeth which was not given a commercial release. The reasons may be obvious - ‘searching for a plot to justify its creation, Salman pilfers from the play to structure...
Feature film. A French-Spanish derivative of Othello set in the late 1970s in which Othello is cast as a mercenary soldier fighting in Africa. Courtney Lehmann in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (op cit)...
Television production of George Bernard Shaw’s short play of 1910 in which Shakespear (Shaw’s spelling) has an assignation with the Dark Lady, but encounters Queen Elizabeth as well, to whom he puts an...
Porn film. An adaptation of Macbeth set in a castle in Budapest. Courtney Lehman (op cit) makes a case for the film being ‘a surprisingly faithful adaptation’ , offering a ‘provocative example of the...
Complete performance by the Marlowe Dramatic Society with Patrick Wymark as Richard.
Latin American exploitation film loosely based on Macbeth and set in Venezuela at the turn of the 20th century. Maximiliano (Alvarado) is a good man who has fallen in with a bandit clan. But after three...
Feature film. An urban crime drama updating King Lear to modern-day Liverpool. The leader of a gang, Sandeman, decides to divide his territory after the murder of his wife in a street robbery. He would like...
Second 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 Acts 2-4 of Coriolanus.
Third 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 fifth Act of Coriolanus.
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.
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