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Radio programme commemorating Shakespeare’s birth. Among the variety of items broadcast is music inspired by Shakespeare’s plays and a performance of King Richard II, Act II, Scene i. After the news at...
As part of a mixed radio programme on the theme of ‘Storm and Calm’ in music, drama, and song, a scene from Shakespeare’s King Lear involving Lear, Kent and the Fool is performed, with George Bealby...
Radio broadcast. Scenes from Romeo and Juliet, starring with Sybil Thorndike as the Nurse. Narrator: George Hagan.
Key scenes from Romeo and Juliet performed in full Elizabethan costume, with additional narration by the director of the theatre to set the scenes in context and occasionally comment or elaborate on them.
Fiction film. Cymbeline with Florence LaBadie as Imogen.
Comedy short featuring a character called Bumke. An ambitious but inept actor makes himself ridiculous by playing the part of Othello on the stage. He has to flee when the audience becomes outraged.
Radio broadcast of Swiss composer Frank Martin’s (-1974) operatic version of The Tempest, which he composed between 1952-1955, produced for broadcasting by Dennis Arundell. With John Cameron as Prospero....
Newsreel item on the Saint George’s Day procession through Stratford-upon-Avon, 23rd April 1915. The procession, led by the Mayor and Mr George Benson, winds through the streets to lay a wreath on...
BBC current affairs television programme. In this item presenter Vera Gilbert reports from St George’s Theatre, Tufnell Park, London. St George’s is an Elizabethan-style theatre which was converted from...
Film version of The Tempest. No cast or production credits found. Ball, paraphrasing from Bioscope (December 12 1912), writes ‘the film consequently has pictured the beginning and end of the story,...
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