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Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 5 - Fraser James performs ‘Once more unto the breach friends, once...
A version of the play, based on both Cinthio’s original tale and Shakespeare’s play, with echoes of Reinhardt and Expressionism. Emil Jannings is Othello.
Television news and current affairs programme presented by Jeremy Paxman. Includes a Newsnight Review item (6.5mins) on the newly established Hip Hop Shakespeare Company. Kirsty Wark announces the launch of...
Documentary. Lenny Henry tells how a comedian had a burning ambition to act in Shakespeare’s plays. There are brief extracts (rehearsal and performance) of Henry in Othello (Rutter’s 2009 production) and...
Two papers given during the First World Shakespeare Congress, held in Vancouver, B.C. Prof. G.R. Hibbard, University of Waterloo, discusses Shakespeare’s use of dramatic poetry and the duality of his...
Murder mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as the mystery writer-cum amateur detective. Jessica Fletcher. In this episode Jessica rushes to London in an attempt to aid her cousin, a famous actress in...
A re-interpretation and deconstruction of Hamlet by Renato Castellucci. Amleto has only one performer, a child, who recites extracts of text, only one of which is recognisably from Hamlet. It is a study of...
A 2-CD collection, compiled by David Timson and Nicholas Soames, of early sound recordings of Shakespearean actors: Herbert Beerbohn Tree as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (III i) and Falstaff in Henry IV....
US television special. Adaptation of Gielgud’s 1959 one-man show on Broadway. Gielgud gives readings from the plays and sonnets grouped into the themes of Youth, Adulthood, Maturity and Death. There are...
Feature film. William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a tavern in Southwark. Shakespeare points out people who remind him of scenes from his plays. A wistful woman reminds him of Juliet,...
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