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Radio broadcast. Dramatic critic James Agate reviews Matheson Lang’s career on the English stage. The talk is illustrated with extracts from gramophone records featuring Lang as Othello in Act V ii.
Feature film. A recording of a St James’s Theatre production with Matheson Lang as Shylock.
Feature Western film in which critics have seen the influence of the Gloucester sub-plot in King Lear. The patriach, Donald Crisp, is worried about his kingdom (cattle ranch) and, like Gloucester, he is...
Episode 25 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Henry...
A television version of The Tempest set during the American Civil War. Critically savaged, the interpretation is concerned with slavery and the role of revenge in wartime. Gideon Prosper (Fonda), is the...
Complete performance by the Marlowe Dramatic Society. Directed by George Rylands with Richard Johnson as Mark Antony and Irene Worth as Cleopatra. Ian McKellen plays Mardian.
Video recording of the American Conservatory Theatre’s 1996 production of The Tempest directed by Carey Perloff with David Strathairn as Prospero.
Complete recording of the play by the Marlowe Dramatic Society. Anthony Jacobs is King Henry.
A radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced for broadcasting by John Gibson. With Gwen Cherrell as Viola, Brewster Mason as Sir Toby and other members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company. Marius Goring,...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced by John Tydeman and adapted for broadcasting by R. D. Smith. With Irene Worth as Queen Katherine, Alan Badel as Cardinal Wolseley, Keith Michell as King Henry...
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