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Narration and readings by Maurice Evans with incidental music and songs by Mary Rodgers arranged and conducted by Jimmy Carroll. Contains passages from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, As You Like...
Radio broadcast. Austrian-born American dance historian Walter Sorell interviews Maurice Evans on his opinions about adapting Shakespeare for television. They talk about the recent renaissance of Shakespeare...
Live interview/talk series hosted by Edward R. Murrow. In the second half of the show Murrow visits Maurice Evans who talks about his career and comments on whether Shakespeare could have adjusted to...
Radio programme. Julian Evans talks to American scholar and writer Harold Bloom about the character of Falstaff, a subject Bloom discussed in his book Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human.
Radio programme for schools. Edith Evans talks about the stage with excerpts from She Stoops to Conquer and Hamlet (the players’ scene). Dame Edith, when asked what a girl should do to become an actress,...
Dame Edith Evans talks about acting Shakespeare’s plays, the ways in which she approaches different characters and the importance of language.
Video recording of John Hirsch’s 1983 production of As You Like It for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Roberta Maxwell is Rosalind.
Radio adaptation of Macbeth by Eric Barno. Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson are the Macbeths.
Animation. The film shows a different drawing for each word of Hamlet’s ‘To Be Or Not To Be’ speech. Images are not connected to the speech or its meaning. Narrated by Maurice Evans,
The Rape of Lucrece read by Richard Burton; The Phoenix and the Turtle and The Passionate Pilgrim are read by Edith Evans and Donald Wolfit.
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