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Radio broadcast. Guest presenter Simon Russell Beale examines Restoration theatre, sharing his insights into the plots and characters in musical settings of Shakespeare’s plays by Purcell and his...
Radio broadcast. Paul Guinery introduces a performance of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Roger Norrington conducts the London Classical Players and the...
Video recording of the play produced for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival directed for stage by Terrence O’Brien.
A restored colour version of HAMLET directed by Sven Gade and Heinz Schall with Asta Nielsen as Hamlet and a new score composed by Michael Riessler.
Radio programme. Continuing a celebration of funny books and funny writers. In this episode actress Fiona Shaw joins John Mullan, Professor of Literature at UCL, to explore the impact of Shakespearean and...
DVD presenting six half-hour programmes that contain spoken texts from Shakespeare’s play linked with musical excerpts within a given theme. The programmes are centred on vocal excerpts but also contain...
Feature short. A young man (Keaton) seeks to prove to his sweetheart’s father that he financially sound. He writes letters from the city about the various jobs he has secured. His sweetheart imagines that...
Feature film version of the play. ‘Building on Olivier’s extraordinary stage creation, the film asks less what the cinema can do for the theatre (as with HENRY V and HAMLET) than what the theatre can...
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...
The story of Falstaff’s friendship with Prince Hal, and his rejection when the Prince becomes King, adapted chiefly from Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts I and II, but also Richard II, Henry V and The Merry...
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