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Cut-out animated cartoon burlesque of Othello. Bioscope (29 July 1920) described the film thus - ‘The Moor of Venice becomes a seaside nigger minstrel whilst Desdemona (known as Mona for short) is the...
Fiction short presented by E.W. Hammons. A New York writer (Ryan) is employed by the owner of a department store to adapt Antony and Cleopatra for the annual employee show. The show includes musical numbers,...
Feature film based on Mark Twain’s novel with Mickey Rooney as Huck. Douglas Lanier in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (entry 1120) notes that this is the only film version of Twain’s novel which includes...
Musical comedy. A Shakespeare professor secretly works as a burlesque comedian during the summer. He maintains his secret until a stripper shows up and threatens to tell his secret unless he gives her a...
Joseph Ferdinand Kringsteiner’s 19th-century burlesgue of Othello written in the Viennese dialect for the popular Viennese stage. The play is set among the servant class of Vienna: Mussi Cassio is a...
Musical burlesque made for Eastern German television based on Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor. Written and directed by Günter Stahnke, the production was shot entirely in a studio. With dance...
German burlesque film version of the play directed by J. A. Hübler-Kahla. Unemployed Berlin lawyer Hans Weisemann (Viktor de Kowa) falls in love with a woman who turns out to be the daughter of the...
Animated cartoon burlesque. ‘Amlet drives Ophelia mad by offering her vegetables instead of flowers, then cutting off her hair ("to bob or not to bob"). Laertes complains to the King of ‘Amlet’s...
Fiction short. A burlesque of Romeo and Juliet set in Garmisch, in the Bavarian Mountains. The family feud between the Kapulethofers and the Montekugers (leading to several snowball fights) is initiated by...
A burlesque of Macbeth which imagines how the play would be adapted and filmed by an American producer. The New York Times critic, reviewing the London screening, noted ‘The drama ends happily with a...
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