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Eight-part television series on the history of the English language, written and presented by Melvyn Bragg. Episode 4 discusses some of the greatest English texts, including the first English dictionary and...
Part of a series of educational films intended to serve as an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere. Designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same...
Television documentary, filmed mainly in Moscow, introducing the Animated Tales series (see entries under individual plays). Narrated by Derek Jacobi.
Shows how Shakespeare’s plays grew out of the many elements available to him. The background of English rural life is shown: his home, school and Warwickshire countryside. Shakespeare is seen in London...
Designed to show how the physical features of the Elizabethan stage influenced the work of Shakespeare. The duties of the bookholder, the props and costumes, actors in the ‘tiring room’, and boys playing...
Documentary series on the history of influential British films. This episode looks at SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE. Narrated by Ashley Jensen.
Television documentary. The first episode in a six-part series in which director Richard Eyre gives his personal view on the history of the theatre in the twentieth century. Eyre considers the enduring...
Trevor Nunn, Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, interviews actors about their interpretations of Hamlet. Program 1 (55 mins) investigates major scenes through actor commentary and production...
Feature film. A Japanese version of King Lear, directed by Akira Kurosawa, transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan. An old man, now a warlord, cedes his kingdom to his eldest son and starts a power struggle...
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