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Television drama by Francis Cockrell based on Rupert Croft-Cook’s original story. In order to get a murderer to confess, a detective hires a famous Shakespearean actress to play the ghost of the dead man,...
In this radio talk Hitchcock replies to Granville-Barker’s proposition that Shakespeare’ plays could not be represented adequately on the air or the screen from the point of view of the filmmaker. Val...
Feature film variety revue. A collection of party pieces by a host of British variety stars (Will Fyffe, Cicely Courtneidge, Jack Hulbert, Tommy Handley). Throughout there is a running gag with Donald...
In this episode of the radio series the Shakespearean actor, director and scholar Harley Granville-Barker explains why (in his opinion) Shakespeare cannot be interpreted on the screen, and can be interpreted...
Television variety show. The second half of the programme contains a sketch entitled ‘The life and Legend of Matt Macbeth’, by Wild Will Shakespeare, presenting Macbeth as a musical Western. Dick Bentley...
A video recording of the play performed by the Roundabout Conservatory & Ensemble Company, directed by Gene Feist.
Cambridge Experimental Theatre’s Hamlet, adapted for the stage by Roland Kenyon, challenges the entrenched notions of naturalism, sanctity of text, one-man-one-part and the tragic male hero, in a...
Feature film. A spy thriller taking it’s name from Hamlet’s line ‘I am but mad north-north-west’ (II ii). New York advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Grant) is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by...
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