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Ninth episode in a fifteen-part televised series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies), effectively presenting a chronological history of British...
Television production of Hamlet, heavily abridged. Directed by Peter Brook with Paul Scofield as Hamlet. The Phoenix Theatre, London stage production went out live from a studio; it was thought that such a...
BBC screen adaptation by John Caird which compresses both parts of Henry IV into a three-hour television drama focusing on the father/son relationships in the plays.
Series, in three parts, showing how the meaning of the play can change in the hands of a director. Director Douglas Campbell has firm convictions about Macbeth (including his belief that parts of the play...
Radio series about private detective Sam Spade, a character created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Maltese Falcon. A psychiatrist named Doctor Denoff comes to Spade (Howard Duff) when a blackmailer...
Independent film adaptation of the play filmed on 16mm. Samuel Crowl (see review citation) believes the film to be like watching ` an experimental, fringe theatre company performance of Shakespeare where our...
A low-budget, punk rock, exploitation, B film based on Romeo and Juliet and set in modern Manhattan. Filmed in Troma style with much gratuituous violence, it exhibits a healthy disregard for taste and comes...
Television production with Ron Cook 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...
Last of a three-part televised adaptation of Shakespeare’s minor tetralogy (three parts of Henry VI and Richard III). Originally a Royal Shakespeare Company production directed by Peter Hall and John...
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