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A television commercial for the BIC Banana pen ("which comes in ten expressive colours"). Shakespeare is having trouble expressing himself writing with an ordinary ballpoint and even today, the voice-over...
Radio programme on English bawdy presented by Tim Brooke-Taylor. Celebrates the history of bawdy from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Benny Hill and the ‘Carry On’ films. It asks what do Shakespeare and...
Scenes from Shakespeare read by John Gielgud and Pamela Brown. Scenes from Romeo and Juliet. What lady’s that, which doth enrich the hand (I v); He jests at scars that never felt a wound (II ii); Wilt thou...
Glenda Jackson talks to Barbara Bogaev about playing the title role in King Lear.
British television comedy series. This episode includes the sketch ‘The Man Who Speaks in Anagrams’. Part of the dialogue is as follows: Palin: And I believe you’re working on an anagram version of...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Even if you’re not a Shakespeare scholar, there are things you have learned about Shakespeare and his plays throughout your life - that it’s bad luck to say...
A comedy gala to benefit Amnesty International staged at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London. The evening consisted of comedy sketches and music. One sketch, written by Richard Sparks, features Atkinson as a...
This adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet" for video game platforms is an adventure/role playing game in which Ophelia is placed centre stage. Having experienced a vision in which everyone dear to her meets...
Feature filmed based on Betty Smith’s novel of the same name. A young girl, Francie, tries to keep her idealism alive and surmount the hardships of her slum tenement life in the face of her family’s...
Radio play in one act written by H. F. Rubinstein and produced by Martin Jenkins. Set in the library of the Earl of Pembroke’s house in Wiltshire on 2 December 1603, it speculates what might have happened...
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