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Sunday 23 April 1989 commemorates 425 years since the birth of William Shakespeare. Dr Levi Fox, director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, takes Norman Painting on a tour of Stratford-upon-Avon’s most...
Experimental short. Portrait inspired by John Everett Millais’ painting of Ophelia. Narrated by Elizabeth Reizner.
Television documentary examining John Everett Millais’ painting ‘Ophelia’ hanging in the Tate Britain, London. Presented by Edwin Mullins.
Topical arts magazine series. Includes an item on the 2006 ‘Searching for Shakespeare’ exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London which examined the available portraiture and biographical...
Feature film adapted from the novel by Oscar Wilde but conceived as a sexploitation film and moral statement on London decadence in the 1960s. Self-absorbed and beautiful Dorian Gray (Berger) falls in love...
A collection of films made by the University of Warwick in conjunction with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust about the life and times of William Shakespeare. In this film Professor Stanley Wells, Chairman...
The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet in the Birmingham Repertory Company production directed by H.K. Ayliff and performed by John Gielgud and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. The set, designed by Paul Shelving, is...
Documentary film by Carla Degenhardt and Barbara Unger-Wiplinger offering impressions from the staged everyday life of protagonist Hiltraud Schmidt, a sufferer from a neurological disease and her partner,...
Abbreviated version of the play. At the Capitol Julius Caesar leaves with Mark Antony while Caesar is seen plotting with another man. In the arena Antony offers Caesar the crown three times. Cassius...
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 8 - Mark Lamarr reads ‘All the world’s a stage’ from As You Like It...