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Musical/Documentary. "RAPPING WITH SHAKESPEARE is a modern day hip-hop version of Shakespeare’s tales that explores the lives of five South Central Los Angeles teenagers attending Crenshaw High School. The...
Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Washington he discovers that his plays are used to discuss ideas of power and politics. He meets Stephen Sondheim...
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...
Syndicated radio mystery series. A story about a couple who plot a murder and the apes at the zoo who know about it. There are several references to Macbeth as outlined by Mike Jensen (op cit).
Television advertisement for a McDonald’s chicken flatbread sandwich. Romeo is about to leave the balcony when Juliet, holding a telescope, notices that he has a sandwich in his bag. She leaves the balcony...
Live afternoon broadcast of The Taming of the Shrew adapted by Philip Hanson from William Dawkins’ 1953 production for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Michael P. Jensen ‘Radio’ in Burt, Richard (ed)....
Syndicated radio drama written by Ian Martin and hosted by E.G. Marshall. The story of Romeo and Juliet with the language updated.
Feature film. A story of an American film director (Smith) who travels to Yemen to film an Arabic version of Macbeth among Yemeni tribal warriors. "The appeal of this Macbeth adaption is in making the...
Hardcore porn film. According to Lanier (op cit) the film is a ‘mock revisionary account’ of Shakespeare’s writing offered by William Sexspeare the 24th, Shakespeare’s heir. Includes sequences of a...
Live radio broadcast from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival of Angus Bowmer’s production of Hamlet directed for radio by Andrew C. Love. The production is selected scenes not an abridgement. Michael P....
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