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Much Ado About Nothing (1966 Audio)

Director

Franco Zeffirelli

Live audio recording of a performance of Much Ado About Nothing directed for the National Theatre in 1965 by Franco Zeffirelli. Robert Stephens is Benedick and Maggie Smith, Beatrice. Ian McKellen plays...

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Taming of the Shrew, The (1967 Film, Video)

Director

Franco Zeffirelli

Producer

Franco Zeffirelli; Richard Burton; Elizabeth Taylor

Feature film version of the play. A bawdy and boisterous production, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, which reduces the play to the Katharina/Petruccio romance

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Shakespeare at the Movies (2001 Audio)

Music from filmed Shakespeare plays performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic and Crouch End Festival Chorus, conducted by Paul Bateman, Nic Raine and Kenneth Alwyn. Also included are well known dialogue...

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Shakespeare at the Movies (2009 Radio)

Series

Friday Night is Music Night

Live radio show presented by Ken Bruce featuring music used in the films of Shakespeare. The BBC Concert Orchestra is conducted by Richard Balcombe and their performance includes extracts from William...

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Romeo and Juliet (1968 Film, Video)

Director

Franco Zeffirelli

Producer

John Brabourne; Anthony Havelock-Allan

A feature film adaptation, much cut, and aimed at a mainstream, young audience. Beautifully photographed and costumed, the film was a huge box office success and a forerunner of the ‘teen movie’.

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Much Ado About Nothing (1967 Television)

Director

Alan Cooke

Producer

Cedric Messina; Robert Stephens

Televised adaptation based on a National Theatre stage production by Franco Zeffirelli, starring real-life married couple Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens as Beatrice and Benedick.

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