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Feature film comedy. Ageing Hollywood star (Burt Reynolds) signs up to play the title role in King Lear in Britain to revive his flagging career. He believes the role is part of a Royal Shakespeare Company...
Talk by BBC radio’s first drama critic Archibald Haddon. Among the various stage plays that he praises for their comic qualities, he discusses J. M. Barrie’s ‘Rosalind’. A "comedy of...
Last programme in a 3-part radio series examining Shakespeare in performance. Devised and produced by John Powell, the programmes are compiled with recordings from the Sound Archives featuring voices and...
A made-for-television version of Shakespeare’s play directed by Lothar Bellag and Hanna Georgi. With Christel Bodenstein as Viola and Johanna Clas as Olivia. The music is composed by Wolfgang Pietsch.
Fiction film directed by William V. Ranous with Paul Panzer as Romeo and Florence Lawrence as Juliet.
Fiction film. A version of Romeo and Juliet in five reels directed by J. Gordon Edwards with Theda Bara as Juliet and Harry Hilliard as Romeo.
Video recording of John Wood’s 1989 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival production of Henry V set in the First World War. Geraint Wyn Davies is Henry.
Filmed version of Verdi’s opera directed by Franco Zeffirelli. The Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan are conducted by Lorin Maazel who also directed and produced the music. Placido...
A version of King Lear using the theatrical formalism of Beijing opera as a medium in which to read Shakespeare’s play. The director translates Lear into a three-act, one-actor piece of performance art,...
First in a 3-part series examining Shakespeare in performance. Devised and produced by John Powell, the programmes are compiled with recordings from the Sound Archives featuring voices and opinions of...
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