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Othello (1970 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Audiotapes

Director

John Russell Brown

R A Foakes, University of Kent, and Kenneth Muir, University of Liverpool, discuss approaches to the Othello, which is often regarded as a domestic tragedy, different in nature from the other great...

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Hamlet (1970 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Audiotapes

Director

John Russell Brown

David Daiches, University of Sussex, and L C Knights, University of Cambridge, discuss the play. Hamlet, more than any other play, has produced many and divergent interpretations. The speakers consider the...

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Henry IV (1937 Radio)

Series

Columbia Shakespeare Cycle

Producer

Brewster Morgan

US radio version of Henry IV, the adaptation includes both parts but heavily favours Part 1 and the comic scenes. Produced by Brewster Morgan and narrated by Conway Tearle. Walter Huston as Henry and...

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Richard II (1970 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Audiotapes

W. Moelwyn Merchant, University of Exeter, and Brian Morris, St David’s University College Wales, discuss the play. They argue that Richard’s character and actions test the Elizabethan notions of the...

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Macbeth. Part 1 (1960 Television)

Series

Terrible Choice

Director

Roger Jenkins

Television schools series in eight parts, examining the conflict between good and evil in medieval and Elizabethan drama. Episode 6 argues that in Macbeth Shakespeare makes use of the traditions of earlier...

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King Lear (1937 Radio)

Series

Columbia Shakespeare Cycle

Director

Brewster Morgan

Radio adaptation of King Lear by Archibald MacLeish. Narrated by Conway Tearle. Thomas Mitchell is Lear.

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Shakespeare Variates (1965 Television)

aka: Shakespeare Variations

Series

Esso Repertory Theatre

Director

David Pressman

Producer

David Susskind; Daniel Melnick

A showcase for American repertory theatre companies introduced by Walter Kerr. In this episode the American Shakespeare Festival Players, in Stratford, Connecticut rehearse Coriolanus (I i), The Taming of...

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Foxtrot from ‘FaÇade’ (1997 Video)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1997 sale: £12.55 (+VAT inc. p&p)

A fully costumed performance of ‘Foxtrot’ from ‘Façade’, choreographed by Frederick Ashton to music by William Walton, danced by four students from the Royal Ballet School and recorded at the Margot...

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Winter’s Tale, The (1966 Film)

Director

Frank Dunlop

Producer

Peter Snell

Feature film. A recording of Fred Dunlop’s 1966 ‘Pop Theatre’ Edinburgh Festival production. Inadequately lit, poor colour, indifferent and over-emphatic performances, and a cinematic technique...

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Macbeth. Part 2 (1960 Television)

Series

Terrible Choice

Director

Roger Jenkins

Television schools series in eight parts, examining the conflict between good and evil in medieval and Elizabethan drama. Episode 7 continues the argument that in Macbeth Shakespeare makes use of the...

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