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Podcast hosted by Sebastian Michael. Each edition looks at a particular sonnet, which is first recited then analysed. This episode look at the sonnet that broke with the sequence running since number 18.
Feature film version of the play. Widely criticised and a commercial failure, the film was received as an interesting deconstruction or completely unintelligible according to taste. The film makes the...
Third of twelve programmes in which all Shakespeare sonnets are recited by various actors. The programme is introduced by Rayner Heppenstall. Marius Goring reads Sonnets 26-32, 153, and 154.
Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Alan Paul. This episode looks at the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story, its basis in Romeo and Juliet and the way the show and its reputation has changed over...
Comedy sketch series. Includes a sketch in which Benny Hill is a programme planner on the telephone to an up-and-coming writer William Shakespeare. No further details known [10/2007].
Emilio Cossira singing a tenor aria from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Ball hazards a guess that the aria was ‘Ah! Lève-toi soleil’. The film experimented with a synchronised sound system outlined by...
Part 19 in a 39-part narrated slide show on Western cultural history by Charles G. Bell of St John’s College, New Mexico. The video edition was produced by artists Steina and Woody Vasulka. The video...
In 1990, the Mabou Mines theatre group worked to perform an abridged version of King Lear directed by Lee Breuer featuring gender-reversed roles and set in 1950s America. The film follows the director Lee...
Spoken word recording, condensed, of Romeo and Juliet directed by John Hale with Keith Michell and Virginia McKenna in the title roles and Flora Robson as the Nurse.
Radio broadcast for schools. Seventh in an eight-part series, conducted by J.C. Stobart and Mary Somerville, introducing schoolchildren to Shakespeare.
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