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Four television lectures (transmitted 22-25 April 2003) about Shakespeare’s life and the stage history of his plays. Narrated by A.V. Bartoshevich.
Propaganda short. Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man’s suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography. When the suit is being cut up to make clothes for the...
A recording of Brian Bedford’s one-man show exploring the emotion and psychology behind Shakespeare the man, as well as Shakespeare the playwright. The show was conceived as an actor’s celebration of...
BBC Radio 2’s live music and interview show presented by Simon Mayo. In this episode Mayo talks Simon Callow about his new project Shakespeare: The Man From Stratford. In this one-man stage show, written...
A video recording of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s all-male production of Richard II with Mark Rylance in the title role.
Kate McDuffie looks at SHE’S THE MAN (2006), a contemporary update of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night - and doesn’t like what she finds. She focuses on deviations from the play, the removal of a Malvolio...
An experimental and impressionistic film which records the thoughts of a drowning actor. In one scene, the young man (dressed in the make-up and costume of a clown) performs as Hamlet to the approval of the...
Late-night music/comedy series. In this episode, in a sketch entitled ‘Improv Hamlet’ and set in the Globe Theatre, Shakespeare (Lovitz)) is told that Richard Burbage has been replaced by another actor...
Television advertisement created by Publicis for the Renault Clio Sport. It features a woman (Sophie, played by Annelise Hesme) driving the Renault Clio in Paris and a man (Ben, played by Jeremy Sheffield)...
Recording of a live illustrated lecture by Anna Beer, which explores what can be divined about Shakespeare the man from his sonnets. Followed by a Q&A.
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