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US late night talk/variety show hosted by Johnny Carson. In this episode Charles Nelson Reilly recites Hamlet’s ‘to be or not’ soliloquy. An actress had dismissed him as he tried to join the...
Cult CBC radio comedy sci-fi adventure serial. Johnny and Dante time travel to Elizabethan England to try and find out who wrote Shakespeare’s plays. They find themselves involved in an assassination...
Television specialist knowledge quiz show hosted by Johnny Ball. Contestants research the chosen subject of their opponent. In this episode an expert on Shakespeare is in competition with a Robbie Williams...
Feature film. Johnny, By and Kate are schoolmates who attempt to prove the innocence of Johhny’s father. They discover the murderer is Al Posna and attempt a scheme in which Posna confesses his crime. They...
Regional television broadcast. Cleo Laine sings Shakespeare’s words set to music by Johnny Dankworth. Simon Callow reads from the sonnets.
US late-night talk/variety show. In this episode (3 minute sketch) Carson, dressed in Renaissance garb, imagines Shakespeare as written for television and plays Hamlet, reciting, "To be or not to be" and...
Feature film. A spaghetti western based loosely on Hamlet but with a happier ending. Johnny Hamilton is a Confederate general in the Civil War and returns to Ranch Elsenor to discover that his father Chester...
Feature film updating Othello to a jazz club setting. Aurelius Rex is a famous black jazz musician with a white wife, former singer Delia. Wealthy Rodney Hamilton throws a party for him where one of the...
The Canadian comedy duo Frank Wayne and Johnny Shuster parody a number of Shakespeare plays including Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Richard III in the form of a baseball game. First performed on...
Shakespeare set to music by John Dankworth and performed by Cleo Laine. Tracks are: Compleat Works, Sigh No More, Ladies, Fear No More, Witches, Fair and Foul, Shall I Compare Thee, Blow, Blow Thou Winter...
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