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Two-part television drama chronicling the later years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. In the theatrical DVD version there is a scene which was not included in the second part of the broadcast programme....
Radio broadcast. Having been put off Shakespeare by unimaginative schoolteachers, Lenny Henry recently confessed to a late-flowering passion for the plays [see LENNY AND WILL 25 March 2006] Pursuing his...
Cartoon animated by Anson Dyer with a Charlie Chaplin (C.H. Aplin) figure as ‘Amlet. Told of his uncle’s guilt by a ghost, ‘Amlet ‘shoots’ Claudius with a cinematograph, as he exalts over the...
Short. Relates the growing love between an student oboist and a beautiful girl who studies at a circus theatre for deaf mutes. In one scene the boy watches the girl as the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet...
Shows how Shakespeare’s plays grew out of the many elements available to him. The background of English rural life is shown: his home, school and Warwickshire countryside. Shakespeare is seen in London...
An Elizabethan detective story written by Eric Barber in which Shakespeare unravels the mystery surrounding the death of Marlowe in a tavern brawl. Includes a scene in the inn at Deptford in which...
Amateur ballet film photographed by John de Vere Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst. Includes film of three minutes of dress rehearsal of John Cranko’s version of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet staged by the...
Feature film derived from John Herbert’s stage play of the same name. Smitty, a young and naive young man, is sent to a reformatory prison for six months. He is assigned a cell with Queenie, a drag queen,...
Feature film. Set in 1927 Iowa where Walter Hale (Presley) manages a Chautauqua show. Mr Morality (Price) is a lecturer. In one scene he quotes from Nietzsche, Jonson, Confucius and Shakespeare. In a later...
Fiction short. An allegory on ‘coming out’ set in working-class Dublin. A son comes home to his family to find his father repairing the car, and his mother in the kitchen cooking as usual. As he...
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