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Roman costume drama with a script based loosely on Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and Plutarch’s Lives.
Feature film comedy about a former bank clerk (Lyons) who takes a job as a film extra and is accidentally made a star by a famous director and becomes a victim of the studio’s publicity machine. A satire...
A talk by Dr Sandra Clark with special reference to Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and King Lear.
Television production of the play, virtually uncut, which incorporates a ballet sequence choreographed by Juan Corelli. The romantic setting, and use of gesture and expression, shows the influence of Reinhardt.
Feature film in four parts. The life of Hitler conveyed as ‘part theatre, part vaudeville, part magic lantern show...several Hitlers in succession, are interwoven through stylised tableaux, back projected...
John Barton talks with Ian Richardson and Richard Pasco about their alternating roles in Richard II in the Royal Shakespeare Company production. They illustrate their discussion with specially recorded...
A personal view of the play presented by General Sir John Hackett, analysing Coriolanus’ soldierly qualities and failings. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays...
A documentary about the 1978 stage production of The Taming of the Shrew by the New York City Shakespeare company at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Includes scenes from the production, interviews...
Filmed partly on location in Venice, the specially commissioned production of The Merchant of Venice emphasises contemporary issues of capitalism, feminism, and racism in the form of anti-semitism. Bob Peck...
Documentary on the authorship of Shakespeare’s play, concentrating on Edward de Vere as one of the likeliest alternative authors. Charlton Ogburn, Enoch Powell and Charles Vere, Earl of Burford argue...