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Mel Gibson talks to high school students about his role as Hamlet in Zeffirelli’s film.
Children’s television series. An episode from the Muppet’s Monsterpiece Theatre interlude, presented by Muppet Cookie Monster (as Alistair Cookie) - a spoof on Masterpiece Theater presented by Alistair...
High school comedy loosely based on Jane Austen’s Emma. In one brief scene the smart and nonchalent heroine, Cher (Silverstone), in an attempt to assert her sophistication and intellectual superiority...
Video lecture by Peter Garino (Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Project of Chicago) including film clips from various adaptations of the play featuring Christopher Plummer, Laurence Olivier, Kenneth...
Local access video discussion series hosted by Rick Winston and Bill Morancy. In this edition Rick explores his favourite film adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with theatre director Joanne Greenberg....
Actors who have played Hamlet discuss why they perceive the role as a benchmark in their careers. The programme includes stills and film extracts from performances by Olivier, Richard Burton and Mel Gibson.
A compilation of sixteen performances of the first of Hamlet’s soliloquies, taken from a variety of film and TV productions performed in English. Presented in order of the actor’s surname, they appear as...
Television arts documentary. Prior to the opening of Franco Zeffirelli’s Italian production of Hamlet at the National Theatre, London, Zeffirelli is seen directing the scene between Hamlet and Gertrude...
Video recording of JoAnne Akalaitis’ production of Henry IV. Part 1 for the 1991 New York Shakespeare Festival with Larry Bryggman as King Henry and Thomas Gibson as Prince Hal. Original music by Philip...
Television programme. Third in a series of lectures drawn from Harvard professor Michael Sandel’s famous undergraduate course on the philosophy of justice. In this episode Sandel introduces the British...
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