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Radio version of the play produced by Val Gielgud. With Sebastian Shaw as Brutus, George Hayes as Cassius and Richard Williams as Caesar. The music is specially written by Christopher Whelen.
Live sound recording of Peter Gill’s 1981 production of Much Ado About Nothing with Penelope Wilton as Beatrice and Michael Gambon as Benedick.
A version of Macbeth with Arthur Bouchier and Violet Vanbrugh. Other leading parts were played by German actors.
Fiction comedy short. When a staging of Hamlet fails the manager insists on putting on a revised version and persuades a wealthy girl to play Ophelia. In the performance the Ghost does a song and dance...
Antony and Cleopatra directed by Charles Kent with Betty Kent (the director’s wife) as Cleopatra. The film was shot entirely in the studio, Vitagraph’s promotion describing the film as a ‘stupendous...
Video recording of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre 2012 staging of an all-male Richard III with Mark Rylance in the title role. Directed by Tim Carroll.
Fiction film version of The Taming of the Shrew directed by D.W. Griffith with Florence Lawrence as Kate and Arthur Johnson as Petruchio. The film omits the Christopher Sly framing and much reduces the...
A record, filmed at Ealing, of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree’s production of Henry VIII staged at the Her Majesty’s Theatre.
Feature film. The story of Julius Caesar with just occasional borrowings from Shakespeare’s play. Filmed in the traditional Italian spectacular tradition the plot covers a good deal of Caesar’s life and...
A burlesque of Macbeth which imagines how the play would be adapted and filmed by an American producer. The New York Times critic, reviewing the London screening, noted ‘The drama ends happily with a...
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