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Radio broadcast. Marina Warner considers the uses Shakespeare makes of fairies and fairy tales including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet.
BBC radio broadcast of Gounod’s opera live from Covent Garden. The new production by Nicolas Joel is sung in French. Charles Mackerras conducts the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Covent Garden.
Ballet recording. Bernd Köllinger’s modern reworking of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Komische Oper Berlin is adapted for television by Heide Draexler-Just. The programme is...
A made-for-television adaptation of The Frog Prince. In the comic fairy tale Prince John (Maguire) and his squire (Short) are turned into frogs and 500 years later find themselves in New York City where the...
Documentary on King Lear shown ahead of Richard Eyre’s production with Ian Holm transmitted later the same evening. The themes of the play are debated by actors Warren Mitchell, James Earl Jones and...
Feature film based on a popular Danish nationalistic play from 1887, with a storyline that blends Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale "The Swineherd" with Shakespeare’s "The Taming of the Shrew". The...
A feature-length celebration of Shakespeare on silent film drawing on two dozen titles from the BFI National Archive many of which are rarely seen. Of the estimated 300 Shakespeare films produced in the...
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 4 - Benedict Wong performs ‘Hang there my verse in witness of my love’...
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