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Macbeth - A Ballet (2008 Film, Video)

Director

Nelli Shevchenko

A version of Macbeth choreographed by Vladimir Vasilyev and Sally Gilpin danced by the Bolshoi Ballet to music by Kirill Mochanov conducted by Fuat Mansurov. The ballet ends with the three witches luring...

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Saturday Night Live [22/11/1986] (1986 Television)

Series

Saturday Night Live

Director

Paul Miller (3)

Late-night music/comedy series. In this episode, in a sketch entitled ‘Improv Hamlet’ and set in the Globe Theatre, Shakespeare (Lovitz)) is told that Richard Burbage has been replaced by another actor...

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Comedy of Errors, The (2004 Video)

Director

Joe Banno

Video recording of Joe Banno’s 2004 production of The Comedy of Errors for the Folger Theatre set in the Italian/American Brooklyn neighbourhood. Clinton Brandhagen plays Antipholus of Syracuse and Ephesus...

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Macbeth (1949 Television)

Series

Philco Television Playhouse

Director

Gerry Simpson; Owen Davis

Producer

Harold McGee

Television production of Macbeth. A recording of the live television performance of the New York City Players Club production in the Folger Library. Directed on stage by Anthony Brown and Owen Davis, and for...

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Tour of the Folger Shakespeare Library with Robert MacNeil (1980 Video)

A videotape giving information about the Folger Shakespeare Library and its collections.

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Teaching Shakespeare: New Approaches from the Folger Shakespeare Library (1986 Video)

Director

Marjory Potts; Robert Potts

Producer

Marjory Potts; Robert Potts

A videotape produced by the Folger Shakespeare Library to promote the study and teaching of Shakespeare. Emphasises that Shakespeare’s words were meant to be heard and an understanding of the text is...

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Romeo and Juliet (1976 Television, Video)

Series

Thames Shakespeare Collection

Director

Joan Kemp-Welch

Producer

Francis Coleman

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+...

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Much Ado About Nothing (1993 Film, Video)

Director

Kenneth Branagh

Producer

David Parfitt

Lavish and festive feature film adaptation of the play set in Tuscany and using a British and pan-American cast. Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation is ‘full of sunny high spirits and still terrific fun to...

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Otello, Comando Negro (1982 Film)

aka: Othello, The Black Commando

Director

Max H. Boulois

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)...

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Children’s Festival (1983 Video)

Video comprising four segments recorded on a home VCR from local TV news shows in 1983 (the first full year the Folger was open after a large-scale renovation). Items are: Shakespeare’s birthday...

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