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Educational videotape on Shakespeare’s life and times.
Documentary film recalling the first Elizabethan age through surviving architecture, art, furniture, music and literature. The music, by Ralph Vaughan Williams, is played by the London Sinfonia and sung by...
An operatic staging of Hamlet with music by two contemporaries of Verdi, Franco Faccio and Arrigo Boito.
Explores the countryside which inspired three of England’s greatest writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and William Shakespeare.
Michael Parkinson interviews Laurence Olivier.
A film reporting on behind-the-scenes activities at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London including educational work, preparations for a performance of Romeo and Juliet, and a history of the building.
Excerpts from Shakespeare’s sonnets read by Richard Pasco.
3-disc set. Yukio Ninagawa’s staging of Henry IV, Parts I & II. Cast unknown (11/2014).
A performance of the play with Ronnie Barker and others, together with GCSE-level study notes prepared and soken by Rod Mengham.
A remake of the Ernst Lubitsch film TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942) with Mel Brooks and Ann Bancroft in the roles originally played by Jack Benny and Carole Lombard.