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In ancient Britain, the elderly King Lear plans for the future of his estate by putting his three daughters to the test. By indulging his vanity, the King delivers a terrible injustice that wrecks havoc on...
Televised adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company stage production directed by Michael Elliott in 1961. Vanessa Redgrave is Rosalind.
Radio adaptation by Jeremy Mortimer. David Warner is Prospero, with Carl Prekopp as Ariel, Rose Leslie as Miranda and Don Warrington as Gonzalo. Music composed and performed by Devlin’s Violin Company.
Live sound recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1974 production of Cymbeline directed by John Barton, Barry Kyle and Clifford Williams with Sebastian Shaw in the title role and Susan Fleetwood as...
Feature film. A political thriller about who actually wrote the plays of William Shakespeare - Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex...
Feature length, low-budget version of Hamlet filmed in Derry, Northern Ireland. The film cuts the text heavily and rearranges scenes while making interpretative use of locations and accents to draw parallels...
Live audio recording of Peter Brook’s production of King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Paul Scofield in the title role.
Earliest extant British televised production of the play with black American actor, Gordon Heath, in the title role.
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...
Television production of the play directed by Don Taylor with Tyler Butterworth (Proteus) and John Hudson (Valentine).
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