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A thirteen-part television series, presented by Richard Ouzounian, on the history of the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Episode 3 looks at the Festival’s successes and failures during this...
US anthology arts series introduced by Alistair Cooke. The final item in the programme (42 minutes) offers interpretations of Hamlet’s soliloquy ‘To be, or not to be’, with players from the Stratford...
The play’s theme of ‘poison’ is explored, both in the physical sense of the three poisoning episodes, and in the figurative sense of subtly spreading corruption and evil.
Canadian arts series. A televised version of the stage production performed at the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Directed by George McCowan with Martha Henry as Viola.
Maynard Mack, Yale University, uses portraits (e.g. Sir Francis Drake), maps (Visscher’s View) and models (Globe Playhouse) to discuss the relationship between the age of Elizabeth and Hamlet. He reflects...
Professor Mack of Yale University divides the play into three sections: a ghost story, a detective story, and a revenge story. and discusses the major characters and movements, illustrated with scenes from...
Professor Mack of Yale University lectures on the play. Part 1 discusses the social structures, customs and audiences of Elizabethan England. Part 2 looks at the play’s three stories: the ghost story, the...
Video recording of Robin Phillips’ 1976 production Measure for Measure for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. William Hutt is Duke Vincentio and Martha Henry is Isabella. Maggie Smith plays...
Television play. A recording, re-staged for television, of the production by Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Directed for stage by Michael Langham and for television by Lorne Freed. Douglas Rain is...
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