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  1. Blame It on the Bard: Why the ‘Author" Shakespeare is Responsible for World War I and World War II (2018 Video)

    Lecture on cultural appropriation by Wally Hurst presented at the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship Conference in Oakland, California. It looks at how important Shakespeare’s work was in the development of...

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  2. Shakespeare Vs Hitler: Henry V and War Propaganda in Laurence Olivier’s and Kenneth Branagh’s Films (2023 Video)

    Recording of a live streamed seminar held in Italy but spoken in English, featuring Professor Arturo Cattaneo and moderated by Valentina Foschi. Cattaneo focuses on the versions of Henry V made by Laurence...

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  3. To Be or Not to Be - Lubitsch, Shakespeare and the Theatricality of Power (2022 Video)

    Recording of a lecture by Gregor Moder (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) looking at Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 wartime satire TO BE OR NOT TO BE (qv), analysing how it uses speeches from Shakespeare’s...

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  4. Danger Within (1959 Film)

    aka: Breakout

    Director
    Don Chaffey
    Producer
    Colin Lesslie

    Feature film adapted from Michael Gilbett’s 1952 novel ‘Death in Captivity’, based on his experiences as a POW in Italy during the Second World War. In the book the play being produced is Rudolf...

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  5. Adoulotoi Sklavoi (1946 Film)

    Director
    Vion Papamihalis; Marios Ploritis

    Feature film. On the eve of World War II in Athens, a group of young people have established a theatrical group, planning to stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The outbreak of war, however, changes...

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  6. Diary for Timothy, A (1946 Film)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings
    Producer
    Basil Wright

    Documentary. Jennings’ deeply felt vision of life in Britain during the final year of World War II as lived by four representative characters - an engine driver, a farmer, a miner and an injured fighter...

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  7. "Not Single Spies,/ But in Battalions: Codes and Ciphers from the Renaissance to Today (2014 Audio)

    aka: Codes and Ciphers from the Renaissance to Today

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Richard Paul

    Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. A comment occuring late in this podcast : "Without Bacon and Shakespeare, we might not have won the war in the Pacific," states Bill Sherman, head of research at...

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  8. A Tribute to Shakespeare - The Unparalleled (1964 Television)

    Series
    About Anglia
    Director
    David Kenten
    Producer
    Dick Joice

    An About Anglia special presentation by Michael Robson to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, featuring a compilation of enactments of his work, and footage taken from Laurence...

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  9. To Be or Not to Be (1942 Film)

    Director
    Ernst Lubitsch
    Producer
    Ernst Lubitsch

    Feature film. A comedy drama set in German-occupied Warsaw in World War II. Stars Jack Benny as Joseph Tura, the principal actor in a Polish troupe performing Hamlet. The film was controversial, not least in...

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  10. King and the Fool, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Yossi Turisky
    Producer
    Beth Hatefutsoth

    The Yiddish Theatre in Moscow flourished during the cultural renaissance that followed the Russian Revolution. Two of the moving forces behind the theatre were Solomon Mikhoels and Benjamin Zuskin,...

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