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The video combines clips from major film productions with interviews and commentary by directors and scholars on the adapability of Shakespeare to the screen. Includes excerpts from Julie Taymor’s TITUS,...
Trevor Nunn discusses The Tempest and considers how much of Shakespeare’s last play is autobiographical. Excerpts: THE TEMPEST (1908). d. Percy Stow FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) d. Fred Wilcox THE TEMPEST...
Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director of The Old Globe, discusses the theatre’s film series featuring the work of four filmmakers: Julie Taymor, Peter Brook, Al Pacino and Baz Luhrmann.
Feature film version of The Tempest with Helen Mirren as Prospera.
Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Peter Holland on the topic of trailers made to promote Shakespeare films and plays, looking at how they are structured and edited. The lecture includes an...
Arts news and reviews radio programme with Mark Lawson. Includes an interview with Helen Mirren, who plays the leading role of Prospera in Julie Taymor’s film adaptation of The Tempest.
Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss the importance of early adaptations of Shakespeare and how this helped shape the early development of cinema. Screen productions discussed include:...
A biography of Shakespeare. Details the major themes in his life and the development of his career in the London theatre. Includes readings by Germaine Greer and Edward Petherbridge of several sonnets and...
Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay are joined by their friend Brittany to discuss the Shakespeare movies that were released in the 1990s and how they reflected that decade. The films being...
Feature length low-budget film shot on digital video. A modern re-telling of Titus Andronicus featuring the disaffected youth culture of the ‘Goths’ and fervent lobbyists from the Saturnius and Bassianus...
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