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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1948 Radio)

Producer

William Shakespeare; J. R. Mageean

Radio adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream produced by James Mageean. Scenes from the play are spoken in a dialect current in rural Ulster, especially in Tyrone. In his introduction to the broadcast,...

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All the World’s a Stage (1926 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Shakespeare actor Frank Benson talks about his stage memories.

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Little Miss Rosalind or What Have You? (1946 Radio)

Series

Musical Theatre of the Air

Producer

Ronald Waldman

A musical comedy based on Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Written by D. F. Aitken, with music by Harry Jacobson and Kenneth Leslie-Smith. Lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and James Dyrenforth. Adapted for radio by...

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Consul and the Gifted Woman, The (1957 Radio)

Producer

Malcolm Freegard

Radio play by Hugh Sykes Davies on Delia Bacon’s publication of The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded (1857), a theory on the authorship of Shakespeare’s writings, which Nathaniel Hawthorne...

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Tempest, The (1925 Radio)

Producer

R. E. Jeffrey

Radio broadcast of Shakespeare’s late play produced by R. E. Jeffrey. With Ernest Milton as Prospero and Moyna MacGill as Miranda. The incidental music, composed by Arthur Sullivan, is played by the...

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Birmingham University Literary and Dramatic Society Will Present ‘Malvolio’ In Five Episodes (1923 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Title and characters suggest that this adaptation in five episodes is based on the subplot of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

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Tod des Koenigs Hamlet, Der (1973 Television)

aka: Death of Hamlet, The

An interpretation of Hamlet by Milos Rejnus. The story concerns the events preceding those in Shakespeare’s tragedy and begins with the murder of Hamlet’s father; the hero is Polonius. No cast or...

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Power of the Pen, The (1990 Television)

Series

Different World

Director

Debbie Allen

Producer

Debbie Allen

Us sitcom. A spin-off series from THE COSBY SHOW. The series centres around the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional historically Black college in Virginia. In this episode Dwayne, who loves...

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Opening of the New Shakespeare Memorial (1932 Radio)

Radio broadcast from the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Speeches following luncheon in honour of Shakespeare’s Birthday are held by Alderman Sir A. D. Flower, Mayor of Stratford,...

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Merchant of Venice, The (1996 Television, Video)

Director

Alan Horrox

Producer

Alan Horrox

Filmed partly on location in Venice, the specially commissioned production of The Merchant of Venice emphasises contemporary issues of capitalism, feminism, and racism in the form of anti-semitism. Bob Peck...

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