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A version of the play in which the costumes and reproduction of the Globe theatre stage contribute to recreating the flavour of 16th-century performance. With Jeremy Brett and Piper Laurie as the Macbeths.
A travelogue of ‘Shakespeare’s country’.
Interest film, in five parts, based on the Glastonbury pageant of 1922. Episode one shows the arrival of Joseph of Arimathea to preach Christianity to British peoples; episode 2 shows King Alfred’s...
The programme focuses on Coriolanus beginning with a recorded excerpt from a BBC production of the play with Patrick Wymark and Maurice Denham. Professor H.F.D. Kitto, University of Bristol, is heard giving...
British newsfilm. "The Prince of Wales opens Memorial Theatre before representatives of 40 nations at Stratford". The Prince begins his speech ‘Shakespeare was above all things an Englishman, he loved his...
Feature film Western. The story of marshal Wyatt Earp’s fight against the Clanton gang at Tombstone, ending in the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Alan Mowbray plays an inebriate actor who is forced at gunpoint...
Fiction comedy short. When a staging of Hamlet fails the manager insists on putting on a revised version and persuades a wealthy girl to play Ophelia. In the performance the Ghost does a song and dance...
A version of the play which in the costumes and reproduction of the Globe theatre stage contribute to recreating the impression of 16th-century performance. Efrem Zimbalist Jnr is Prospero.
Feature film. Simonetta, the wife of the celebrated Italian actor Silvio Steno, spends time with his best friend Scipione while Steno prepares for a production of Othello. Simonetta and Scipione go to the...
Radio programme comprised of songs from or inspired by Shakespeare’s plays and a performance of a scene from Romeo and Juliet. From 21:00-21:10 Gilbert Bailey (baritone) sings songs from Twelfth Night:"O...
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