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Feature film comedy. Miles Pope is a black actor trying to make a name for himself on the stage. He finds himself in danger when he discovers that a supposedly dead Mafia chief, Frank Luchino, is the patron...
Feature film. John Barrymore, in his final film, plays a Shakespearean actor caricaturing himself. His attempts to tutor an aspiring star arouse jealousy. The various references to Shakespeare include a...
Propaganda short feature film. Fred is an inept but willing dresser to a famous actor (Richardson), who makes himself up to play Othello. The news of the invasion of Poland comes in, and (in Othello costume)...
Experimental short fiction film. The film’s website summary reads: ‘After facing certain death, Will finds himself alone in the desert and suffering from short term amnesia. Will’s memory slowly...
Sketch comedy web series. William Shakespeare (a starving artist before his big career takes off) finds himself writing entertainment business schlock just to keep himself afloat and his nagging wife happy....
Television sitcom starring George Burns and Gracie Allen as themselves, a show business couple in their home. Each episode began with Burns standing, trademark cigar in hand, before the proscenium...
Recording of a lecture by Paul Budra (Simon Fraser University) in which he explores Shakespeare’s popular comedy and present his theory - that Shakespeare, after several successes, decided to test himself...
Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King Lear, this sixteenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture engages with the question of tragedy and why it gives...
Lecture. Literary critic and author of ‘Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human’, Harold Bloom expounds on Yahweh, Hamlet, Cleopatra, Falstaff, being, and the playwright himself in the culminating...
Short. A suicidal poet reads a letter to his deceased lover. Can he come to terms with his own inadequacies and learn to forgive himself?