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Three extracts from HAMLET (1948) - I ii, I,iii, III i compiled for 8mm release by Castle Films. The BFI National Archive holds the 35mm original. Presented by Laurence Olivier.
British newsfilm. "Their Majesties Princess Elizabeth and Margaret and the Duke of Edinburgh attended the premiere of Sir Laurence Olivier’s ‘Hamlet". People seen on screen at the premiere of HAMLET...
Video recording of a play based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall, and directed by Declan Donnellan. Shannon Taylor is Viola de Lesseps and Luke Humphrey...
Nicolai’s comic opera broadcast on radio with verse recitations by Heinrich Proch. The Wireless Chorus and Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Percy Pitt.
Video recording of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s 2013 production of Macbeth directed by Eve Best. Joseph Millson and Samantha Spiro are the Macbeths.
The Renaissance Theatre Company production of Twelfth Night first staged at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith and directed for the stage by Kenneth Branagh. A wintry studio setting determines the tone for...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1984 production of The Merchant of Venice. Directed by John Caird with Ian McDiarmid as Shylock and Frances Tomelty as Portia.
Educational television. Transmitted in two fifteen-minute blocks, the production shows an English teacher in a north London comprehensive teaching Shakespeare’s play to a Year 9 class. The first part of...
A video recording of the Hartford Stage/Shakespeare Theatre Company co-production of Much Ado About Nothing directed by Mark Lamos. Karen Ziemba is Beatrice and Dan Snook is Benedick. Videotaped for WAPAVA...
A full-text radio production of the play, co-produced by the BBC and the Renaissance Theatre Company. Features Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet, Derek Jacobi and Claudius, Judi Dench as Gertrude, and John Gielgud...