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Two-part television drama chronicling the later years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. In the theatrical DVD version there is a scene which was not included in the second part of the broadcast programme....
Television series, in six episodes, on the life and times of William Shakespeare. Writer John Mortimer based each episode around events in Shakespeare’s life to suggest how they influenced his writing. In...
Radio play by Don Taylor. Asked by one of the Earl of Essex’s agents to stage Richard II, William Shakespeare (Michael Pennington) and other members of the Globe Theatre Company are drawn into a conspiracy...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s King John in 14 scenes, adapted for broadcasting by Barbara Burnham and produced by Peter Creswell. With Robert Farquharson in the title role and Baliol Holloway as the Bastard.
A US drama series re-enacting major historical events and covering them as current news stories. This episode concerns December 26 1597 when Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was selected by Queen Elizabeth I...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play arranged for broadcasting by Herbert Farjeon and produced by Mary Hope Allen. With Carleton Hobbs in the title role and Ralph Richardson as Philip Faulconbridge. The...
A film made for television based on Timothy Findlay’s two-act play, directed by Martha Henry, for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Queen Elizabeth condemns her lover, the Earl of Essex, to...
Television drama. Written by John Mortimer, this six-part drama based on the sixteen years that William Shakespeare is known to have spent in London remains one of the most ambitious biographical portraits...
Radio broadcast of Douglas Seale’s production of King John for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company. Adapted and produced for broadcasting by Norman Wright. With Robert Harris in the lead, Alec Clunes...
A sketch from the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe, written and performed by Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller, and first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1960. The sketch...
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