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Knavery’s Plain Face (1960 Television)

Series

Terrible Choice

Director

Roger Jenkins

Television schools series in eight parts, examining the conflict between good and evil in medieval and Elizabethan drama. Episode 4 argues that Shakespeare’s plays are not concerned with the power of evil...

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Hamlet (1969 Film, Video)

Director

Tony Richardson

Producer

Neil Hartley

Filmed entirely in the Round House, London, where the play had previously been staged. Intense and claustrophic, the film is notable for its extensive use of close-ups, lines delivered in rasping voice-over,...

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Merchant of Venice, The (1980 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Series

BBC Television Shakespeare

Director

Jack Gold

Producer

Jonathan Miller

Television production of the play with Gemma Jones as Portia and Warren Mitchell as Shylock.

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Henry VI (1965 Television)

Series

Wars of the Roses, The

Director

Robin Midgley; Michael Hayes; Peter Hall; John Barton

Producer

Michael Barry

First of a three-part televised adaptation of Shakespeare’s minor tetralogy (three parts of Henry VI and Richard III) encompassing the period from the loss of the British Empire in France to the founding...

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