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US television sitcom about a former journalist, Maya Gallo, who begins a new job writing for her father’s women’s magazine Blush. Jack has two tickets for a London performance of King Lear, but when...
A television version of The Tempest set during the American Civil War. Critically savaged, the interpretation is concerned with slavery and the role of revenge in wartime. Gideon Prosper (Fonda), is the...
Television special featuring The Beatles. At the beginning of the show the group performs a parody of the Pyramus and Thisbe scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a 1960’s version of the Globe Theatre...
Feature film based on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, written and directed by Anna-Elizabeth Shakespeare and Hillary Shakespeare (billed as ‘The Shakespeare Sisters’). This contemporary...
Musical adaptation of Othello. A rock opera set in a hippie commune outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, with Othello as an evangelist. Adapted by Jack Good from his musical stage play.
Variety show. In one episode (transmission date not known) June Whitfield appears in a sketch as a roller-skating Lady Macbeth.
Full-length radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy produced by Val Gielgud. The script of the broadcast has been edited by M. R. Ridley who also introduces the broadcast. With Jack Hawkins, Margaret...
In this episode of the Irish murder-mystery series created by Barry Devlin, priest-turned-sleuth Paolo Baldi digs around in the murderous world of gardening. The plot is loosely based on King Lear, with...
A remake of the Ernst Lubitsch film TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942) with Mel Brooks and Ann Bancroft in the roles originally played by Jack Benny and Carole Lombard.
Independent low-budget feature film. A contemporary adaptation of Hamlet, retaining Shakespeare’s verse, and set in an urban, alienating Dublin.
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