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Animation. A parody of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. The connection with Shakespeare is slight but the sequence in which he courts his Juliet on the balcony with flowers, ice cream and banjo playing...
Harry E. Humphrey recites the Seven Ages of Man speech from As You Like It (III ii) and Hamlet’s advice to the players (11 Vii); on the reverse side he recites Shylock’s justification of the Jew (III i).
"Shakespeare’s life presented through views of places and things associated with him. Using a model of the Globe, an excerpt from Henry V is performed" [Richard N. Albert, ‘An Annotated Guide to...
Musical series featuring classical and Broadway music. This episode, hosted by Ginger Rogers, celebrates the quatercentenary of Shakespeare’s birth.
US variety series. This episode includes a sketch in which Kaye, the Earl Brown Singers and the Tony Charmoli Dancers deliver a musical version of the ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech from As You Like It...
Eight-part television series, the aim of which was to explore ‘how far television can be used to allow the poem itself to work undisturbedly on the reader-listener’. Professor I.A Richards discusses The...
Documentary on John Butler’s ballet. Shows rehearsal footage and includes a discussion by Butler and others about the ballet’s technical and dramatic demands. Butler, who was born in Mississippi, looks...
US variety series. This episode includes a sketch on what commercials might look like if they were written by some of the great authors: William Shakespeare (`Macbath’), William Faulkner (`A detergent...
US comedy variety show hosted by Steve Allen. This episode includes a comedy monologue (9 mins) from Andy Griffith relating the plot and characters of Romeo and Juliet.
Cartoon. In a spoof of the balcony scene Romeo and his friend Cedric unsuccessfully attempt to scale the castle walls to join Juliet.
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