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Claudius is despatched to Sweden to repatriate the body of the traitor, Lord Anders. He discovers deeply worrying news about a plot by his brother, King Hamlet. Elsinore is set in an alternative Europe of...
A video recording of Brian Bedford’s 1998 production of The Winter’s Tale for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Wayne Best is Leontes and Kate Trotter plays Hermione.
Radio broadcast. Nikki Bedi discovers that Shakespeare’s reach extends as far as Bollywood to the slums of Mumbai, where young practitioners are taking the plays and making them fresh for a 21st-century...
Radio drama. Five modern plays for Shakespeare’s women written by Juliet Ace. 4: Count Orso offers a modern Viola a spectacular twelfth night, with a wardrobe beyond most cross-dressers’ dreams.
Italian television production of Macbeth directed by Alessandro Brissoni with Enrico Maria Salerno and Elena Zareschi as the Macbeths. No further information known (4/2008).
US police procedural television drama series. A young woman is killed by a Shakespeare fan that she met in a chat room. Jane believes her arrogant boss who claims to know no Shakespeare is the killer. The...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2002 production of The Winter’s Tale. Directed by Matthew Warchus with Douglas Hodge as Leontes.
Filmed partly on location in Venice, the specially commissioned production of The Merchant of Venice emphasises contemporary issues of capitalism, feminism, and racism in the form of anti-semitism. Bob Peck...
A 5-minute skit in the weekly sports comedy radio show ' hosted by Gary Richardson has spoof football commentators discussing the highlights of a selection of Shakespeare’s plays in a news roundup.
Radio magazine programme in which presenter John Wilson interviews Richard Wilson as he makes his debut for the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing Malvolio in Twelfth Night, directed by Gregory Doran.
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