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A much shortened record of F.R. Benson’s production filmed at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford in 1911 with Benson as King Richard. The film makes no attempt to be other than what it is, a...
Sound recording, before a live audience, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1964 production of Richard III directed by Peter Hall and John Barton. Ian Holm is Richard.
Feature film version of the play. A naturalistic and literal reading with few interpretative touches. Gibson’s Hamlet is a man of action and with the text heavily cut (over 80%) he dominates the majority...
Feature film which presents Hamlet as a princess. While the King of Denmark is seriously ill his wife gives birth to a daughter, telling the court that a son has been born in order to safeguard the crown....
Television documentary about Joseph Papp’s 1982-3 Public Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival production of Hamlet. The production cast an actress, Diane Venora, in the role of Hamlet and the documentary...
A re-staging for television of Gregory Doran’s 2008 RSC production of Hamlet first staged at The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon with David Tennant reprising his performance in the title role.
A film adaptation of Hamlet with Kenneth Branagh in the title role. Set in the 19th century with many stars giving cameo performances in minor roles. The film was shot on 65mm and released in 70mm.
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2003 production of Richard III. Directed by Sean Holmes with Henry Goodman as Richard III.
Television production of Cymbeline with Richard Johnson in the title role and Helen Mirren as Imogen.
Episode fourteen in a fifteen-part televised series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies), effectively presenting a chronological history of British...
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