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Feature film. Stylised martial arts action drama based very loosely on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. When his brother is murdered, ex-cop Han Sing breaks out of jail to avenge his killing and gets...
Barbara Bogaev and Colleen Fay discuss the history of operas based on Shakespeare.
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn about their opera based on Hamlet.
Radio documentary hosted by Scott Simon, on the show West Side Story. Members of the original creative team and cast discuss the show’s birth, members of the movie cast discuss the show’s translation...
Radio series of weekly programmes devised and presented by Bernard Keeffe covering a wide range of music inspired by or derived from Shakespeare. Encompasses original songs, incidental music, songs and...
Murder mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as the mystery writer-cum amateur detective. Jessica Fletcher. In this episode Jessica rushes to London in an attempt to aid her cousin, a famous actress in...
Children’s show starring the glove puppet fox, Basil Brush. The episode includes a comedy sketch based on the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, and Derek, Basil and Stuart Sherwin (traffic warden in the...
Children’s television series consisting of comic sketches and repartee, and competitions with prizes, presented by Ed Stewart. Includes a 5-minute sketch in which the cast spoof Hamlet’s ‘to be or not...
Radio broadcast. A musical version of The Taming of the Shrew written especially for Columbia Workshop. Few of Shakespeare’s lines survive in the modern dialogue. Carleton Young and Nan Sunderland play...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The majority of Shakespeare’s plays call for singing and while the lyrics to the songs appear to have always been a part of the text, the musical notes...
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