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True Identity (1991 Film)

Director

Charles Lane

Producer

Carol Baum; Teri Schwartz

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...

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Playmates (1941 Film)

Director

David Butler

Producer

Cliff Reid

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...

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Volunteer, The (1943 Film)

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Producer

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

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)...

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Nature’s Plague (2006 Film)

Director

Steven Doxey

Producer

Steven Doxey; Doxey. Michael; Brandon Sean Pearson

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...

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Shakespeare Succombs to Product Placement (2013 Video)

Series

Happy Hour Sketch Comedy

Director

Dustin Murphy

Producer

Brandon R. Miller

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....

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Shakespearean Caper, The (1956 Television)

aka: Shakespearean Paper, The

Series

George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The

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...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2022 Video)

Series

Bard Explored

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...

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King Lear (2012 Audio)

Series

Approaching Shakespeare

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...

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Harold Bloom on Shakespeare (2012 Video)

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...

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Shakespeare on Death (2015 Film)

Director

Jordan Rossi

Producer

Jordan Rossi

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?

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