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Television series, in six episodes, on the life and times of William Shakespeare. Writer John Mortimer based each episode around events in Shakespeare’s life to suggest how they influenced his writing. In...
Radio documentary on the first Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival relating how the Festival was conceived, financed and realised and how the audience viewed the first performance of Richard III which...
The Honey Pot is based on ‘Volpone’, the play by Ben Jonson. Rex Harrison stars as international playboy Cecil Fox, who decides to pretend he’s dying in order to find out what his three old flames will...
Feature film. A political thriller about who actually wrote the plays of William Shakespeare - Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex...
Feature film comedy about an undisciplined girl’s school. Includes a short sequence during ‘a culture festival’ in which a pupil performs a striptease while reciting the ‘to be or not to be’...
The life of Shakespeare including scenes of his birthplace, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and landmarks of Elizabethan London. Narrated by John Snagge.
Two films made by the Children’s Film Foundation. The DVD contains 2 extra programmes from THE MAGNIFICENT 6 1/2 series.
Radio drama by Jude Cook that imagines what may have happened when William Shakespeare went to Titchfield House to escape the plague, wrote his celebrated sonnets and got tangled up in emotional and...
Cut-out animated cartoon burlesque of Othello. Bioscope (29 July 1920) described the film thus - ‘The Moor of Venice becomes a seaside nigger minstrel whilst Desdemona (known as Mona for short) is the...
Study extracts. 1) the ghost of Hamlet’s father on the battlements (6 min); 2) Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy; ‘Get thee to a nunnery’ scene; preparations for the visiting players...
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