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Televised adaptation of Robert Chetwyn’s Prospect Theatre Company production with Ian McKellen in the title role. David Giles directs for television.
Adapted from Alan Bennett’s stage play ‘The Madness of George III’, the film focuses on King George’s deteriorating mental condition that opens the door for court intrigue and the usurping of the...
Feature film. A comic spoof drawing irreverently on both the Shakespeare play and the 1877 story by Jules Laforgue. Hamlet (Carmelo Bene) is a would-be playwright. He suffers from inept Freudian analysis by...
Maynard Mack, Yale University, uses portraits (e.g. Sir Francis Drake), maps (Visscher’s View) and models (Globe Playhouse) to discuss the relationship between the age of Elizabeth and Hamlet. He reflects...
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...
Children’s television series. Simon Cates, a teenage genius, has control the Visicron, a machine which has the power to bring famous faces from the past forward in time for 36 hours. During that short...
Professor Mack of Yale University divides the play into three sections: a ghost story, a detective story, and a revenge story. and discusses the major characters and movements, illustrated with scenes from...
Documentary composed of material salvaged from Semerdjiev’s failed multimedia project I, HAMLET. Composed of what remains of the original footage, along with making-of rushes and newly shot interviews, THE...
Video recording of JoAnne Akalaitis’ production of Henry IV. Part 1 for the 1991 New York Shakespeare Festival with Larry Bryggman as King Henry and Thomas Gibson as Prince Hal. Original music by Philip...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the RSC’s 2007 production of King Lear directed by Trevor Nunn with Ian McKellen in the title role.
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