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Recording of an online illustrated lecture by Professor Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University) in which she discusses her book, Shakespeare and East Asia, that looks at the relationship between...
A gender-blind production of Macbeth performed by young actors. Julia Reece is Macbeth and Julienne Horsman is Lady Macbeth.
Fiction film. A re-telling of Macbeth set in the ganglands of Melbourne. Macbeth (Worthington), a loyal henchman to his crime boss Duncan (Sweet), is told by teenage witches that he will one day assume a...
An adaptation of Romeo and Juliet radically interpreting the text, while preserving the verse. Set in a futuristic Verona, the film uses shock cuts, speeded-up trick motion, and a rock music score. Leonardo...
The only known footage of the stage production of Macbeth produced by the Negro Theatre Unit of the Federal Theatre project of the WPA and directed by Orson Welles. The play was staged at the New Lafayette...
Radio programme. Presenter Melvyn Bragg and guests Professor Frank Kermode, director Michael Bogdanov, and Professor Germaine Greer discuss the work of Shakespeare. Does Ben Jonson’s claim that Shakespeare...
Series in which a composer and a director collaborate to devise and make an original music work for television. 1 (director: Simon Reynell; composer: James Dillon) A distorted reflection of a single moment...
Low-budget, modern dress, adaptation of Macbeth. Macbeth is conceived as a bland, corporate hatchet man, the three witches as svelte clubbers, and the porter a doorman at a comedy club. The settings include...
Richard Burton’s performance as Hamlet, directed for stage by John Gielgud, and recorded at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre, New York, on 30 June and 1 July 1964, during a regularly scheduled performance of the...
An intelligent and meditative interpretation emphasising class distinctions and sexual confusion, which ‘has dated better than most...and which captures the shadowy magic of the play well’ (The Guardian...
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