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An extract from a speech made by President John F. Kennedy at a Democrat Party banquet in 1960. Kennedy expounds his belief that the current Republican administration promises action but only if it is not...
Feature film which borrows from the plots and themes of Hamlet and Macbeth. Set in the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (A.D. 907-60), a time of royal instability in the north and warring states in...
Canadian arts series. This episode, profiling the music of Duke Ellington, includes two pieces (7 mins in total) from Ellington’s original score for Michael Langham’s 1963 staging of Timon of Athens at...
Radio play by Sigmund Miller based on Rupert Croft-Cook’s original story. In order to get a murderer to confess, a detective hires a famous Shakespearean actress to play the ghost of the dead man, and...
Television drama by Francis Cockrell based on Rupert Croft-Cook’s original story. In order to get a murderer to confess, a detective hires a famous Shakespearean actress to play the ghost of the dead man,...
Explores the question of dramatic irony in relation to the scene in which Duncan enters Macbeth’s castle. Analyses specific episodes including the argument between Macbeth and his wife concerning the...
The noble Lord Macduff is conspicuous by his absence from a banquet to celebrate Macbeth’s coronation. Plagued by guilt, Lady Macbeth becomes concerned that her husband has developed a tasted for ruthless...
Fiction film of Macbeth containing at least 17 sequences with the focus on the first half of the play. Shot largely in the studio, the film was not well received by the trade papers and its censorship by...
Radio play based on the historical spoof written by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, adapted for broadcasting by Patricia Hooker. Shakespeare has a writer’s block over composing what he believes to be his...
A 2-CD set features historic recordings of celebrated people in the arts, drama, the sciences, sport and exploration. Shakespeare-related items include Ellen Terry as Ophelia and Sir Henry Irving as Richard...
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