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Film drama based on the play by Emile Moreau that relates the love story of Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex. The film opens with a performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor (the Falstaff basket scene...
Documentary. A portrait of the 16th century magician (mathematicians, scientist and astronomer), Dr John Dee, the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Prospero and Marlowe’s Faust, as well as Queen Elizabeth...
Faeture film dedicated in the pre-opening credit sequence to William McGonagall, the ‘greatest Bad Verse Writer of his age’. McGonagall, a Scottish weaver, falls in love with Queen Victoria at a music...
Television production of George Bernard Shaw’s short play of 1910 in which Shakespear (Shaw’s spelling) has an assignation with the Dark Lady, but encounters Queen Elizabeth as well, to whom he puts an...
British newsfilm. "Their Majesties Princess Elizabeth and Margaret and the Duke of Edinburgh attended the premiere of Sir Laurence Olivier’s ‘Hamlet". People seen on screen at the premiere of HAMLET...
Current affairs radio series with John Humphrys. This edition reports on the ‘new’ court poem ‘To The Queen’. The poem has recently been given scholarly imprimateur and included in the new edition of...
Interest film. A record of the pageant, directed by Randle Ayrton, held in aid of the rebuilding of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on 9 July 1927. ‘Queen Elizabeth’s Progress’ with actors in...
Carmelo Bene’s production of Richard III re-created and directed by Georges Lavaudant.
Radio adaptation of the play produced and directed by Richard Wortley. With John Hurt in the title role and David Suchet as Bolingbroke. Music composed by Ilona Sekacz.
A film made for television based on Timothy Findlay’s two-act play, directed by Martha Henry, for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Queen Elizabeth condemns her lover, the Earl of Essex, to...
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