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Audio podcast. Tim is joined by his friend Emily Maeda to discuss the fourth act of A Winter’s Tale and the importance of flowers to the author’s philosophy.
Comedy based on the Tempest in the trademark over-the-top Troma company style.
Animation. A parody of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. The connection with Shakespeare is slight but the sequence in which he courts his Juliet on the balcony with flowers, ice cream and banjo playing...
Animated burlesque. Antonio is a Venetian ice-cream man; Bassanio a navvy. Antonio is brought to court by Shylock. After shedding flood of tears (which cause the flowers in her window box to grow) Portia (a...
Radio programme in which performances of scenes from Shakespeare’s plays alternate with music from various composers performed by the Birmingham Studio Pianoforte Sextet. A selection of Sullivan’s songs...
Experimental, non-narrative made-for-television film based on the true story of the death on stage of the 19th-century mezzo-soprano diva Maria Malibran. Most of the film is framed in tableaux with women...
Short. A satire on the film industry as if it existed in Elizabethan times. Film director William Shakespeare shoots HAMLET in one reel and in one take. When he screens his 15-minute film for the studio...
Experimental film. ‘In Per Kirkeby’s set with a blue backdrop beside a woodland lake Lene Adler Petersen pronounces Ophelia’s madness monologue from Hamlet, but she is constantly interrupted by the...
Five short films based on five Shakespeare sonnets in which the original relationships are set in modern London. Part 1. DAY IN THE PARK. Sonnet 15. Part 2. LOVERS IN A RESTAURANT. Sonnet 138. Part 3. THE...
In this episode of the Irish murder-mystery series created by Barry Devlin, priest-turned-sleuth Paolo Baldi digs around in the murderous world of gardening. The plot is loosely based on King Lear, with...
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