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Performing arts series broadcasting ballets, operas and concerts originally produced for French television. In the opening segment Tchaikovsky’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is played by the orchestra of the...
Series in which Alan Levitan, Brandeis University. interprets Shakespeare’s plays. He discusses ‘character development, and Shakespeare’s use of words to set the mood of the play. Includes selected...
Episode from an interview series, hosted by Robert Cromie, and produced by Chicago education television station WTTW. Crombie talks to A.L. Rowse, editor and annotator of Shakespeare’s complete works.
Episode from an interview series, hosted by Robert Cromie, and produced by Chicago education television station WTTW. Sam Schoenbaum talks about his critically acclaimed biography of Shakespeare.
Fernando Previtali conducts the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Italy in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s overture-fantasy Romeo and Juliet.
Variety show. Includes a ten-minute item in which Danish/American entertainer and comedian Victor Borge visits Elsinore castle inspiring a comedy version of Hamlet.
Travelogue. A tour of locations associated with Shakespeare in London and Stratford-upon-Avon. Narrated by Gregory Abbott.
The Rape of Lucrece read by Richard Burton; The Phoenix and the Turtle and The Passionate Pilgrim are read by Edith Evans and Donald Wolfit.
Educational short. Uses Olivier’s HENRY V (1945) to illustrate the activities that precede a production of a play at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.