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Comedy based on the Tempest in the trademark over-the-top Troma company style.
Animation. A parody of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. The connection with Shakespeare is slight but the sequence in which he courts his Juliet on the balcony with flowers, ice cream and banjo playing...
Experimental, non-narrative made-for-television film based on the true story of the death on stage of the 19th-century mezzo-soprano diva Maria Malibran. Most of the film is framed in tableaux with women...
Short. A satire on the film industry as if it existed in Elizabethan times. Film director William Shakespeare shoots HAMLET in one reel and in one take. When he screens his 15-minute film for the studio...
Experimental film. ‘In Per Kirkeby’s set with a blue backdrop beside a woodland lake Lene Adler Petersen pronounces Ophelia’s madness monologue from Hamlet, but she is constantly interrupted by the...
In this episode of the Irish murder-mystery series created by Barry Devlin, priest-turned-sleuth Paolo Baldi digs around in the murderous world of gardening. The plot is loosely based on King Lear, with...
Animated cartoon burlesque. ‘Amlet drives Ophelia mad by offering her vegetables instead of flowers, then cutting off her hair ("to bob or not to bob"). Laertes complains to the King of ‘Amlet’s...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2006 production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Nancy Meckler. Rupert Evans and Morven Christie in the title roles.
Video recording of William Hutt’s 1971 production of Much Ado About Nothing for the Shakespeare (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Kenneth Welsh is Benedick and Jane Casson is Beatrice.
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2006 production of Much Ado About Nothing. Directed by Marianne Elliott (RSC directorial debut) with Joseph Millson as...
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