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Ninth of twelve programmes in which all Shakespeare sonnets are recited by various actors. The programme is introduced by Rayner Heppenstall. Michael Redgrave reads Sonnets 91 to 99.
Presents the play in performance plus anciliary information. Each act and scene is individually introduced. Information on all the characters can be accessed at any point, as can any part of the text....
Radio broadcast. In this episode of the weekly arts review programme, Richard Buckle talks to Julian Jobb about the Shakespeare exhibition at Stratford-upon-Avon which aims to show Shakespeare’s life and...
Sonnet 91 read in costume by Michael Bryant, followed by a discussion of the sonnet by Sir Roy Strong. The sonnet is then performed again in light of the commentary.
Fiction film with William V. Ranous directing and taking the title role.
Radio broadcast relayed from Stratford-upon-Avon as part of the Shakespeare quatercentenary celebrations. While the first part of the ‘Tuesday Invitation Concert’ introduces ‘Music in London,...
Feature film comedy. Ageing Hollywood star (Burt Reynolds) signs up to play the title role in King Lear in Britain to revive his flagging career. He believes the role is part of a Royal Shakespeare Company...
Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon. Among the various stage plays that he praises for their comic qualities, he discusses J. M. Barrie’s ‘Rosalind’. A "comedy of...
Fiction film. A version of Romeo and Juliet in five reels directed by J. Gordon Edwards with Theda Bara as Juliet and Harry Hilliard as Romeo.
Tim Supple’s production of Twelfth Night made for broadcast on schools’ television. The setting is contemporary with Viola and Sebastian presented as asylum seekers on their arrival in Illyria. With...
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