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Roméo and Juliette (1900 Film)

Director

Clément-Maurice

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...

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Twelfth Night (1941 Radio)

Series

Cavalcade of Literature

Director

Orson Welles

Radio broadcast, in two half hour episodes, of Twelfth Night directed by Orson Welles. Information taken from Jensen, Michael P. ‘Radio’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares (p. 572,...

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Merchant of Venice, The (1928 Radio)

Director

Jack Gilmore

Radio drama. ‘A local production by Vancouver station CNRV, featuring the CNVR players...This appears to be the first Shakespeare broadcast in North America,' Jensen, Michael P. ‘Radio’ in Burt,...

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Taming of the Shrew, The (1939 Radio)

Radio broadcast of The Taming of the Shrew adapted from Angus Bowmer’s stage production. In 1939, OSF took the production to the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco, California and the broadcast arises...

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Julius Caesar (1941 Radio)

Series

Cavalcade of Literature

Director

Orson Welles

Radio broadcast, in three half hour episodes, of Julius Caesar directed by Orson Welles. Information taken from Jensen, Michael P. ‘Radio’ in Burt, Richard (ed). Shakespeares After Shakespeares (p. 531,...

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Hamlet (1925 Radio)

Scenes from Hamlet are performed for radio by John Barrymore and members of his company, from the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London.

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As You Like It (1939 Radio)

Series

Columbia Workshop

Director

Margaret Webster

CBS radio broadcast. A heavily condensed version of As You Like It with its director, Margaret Webster as Rosalind. A long introductory narrative explains the plot.

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Much Ado About Nothing (1929 Radio)

Series

Play to Schools

Radio broadcast of Shakespeare’s play for schools. With G. P. W. Earle, W. Sibbald Malcolm and others. No further information known (12/2007).

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Long Live the King is Dead (1976 Radio)

Series

Cbs Radio Mystery Theatre

Director

Himan Brown

Radio drama. A modern language abridgement of Hamlet with commentary by E.G. Marshall. No cast members known (2007).

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Henry Morgan Show, The [23/04/1950] (1950 Radio)

Series

Henry Morgan Show, The

Director

Charles Powers

US comedy sketch show. In one sketch Hamlet becomes a private eye, Private Orb Ham Spade working on the killing of his father assisted by his secretary, Ophelia. Jensen (op cit) notes that it parodies the...

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