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Platform audio recording. Joel Kaplan and Sheila Stowell talk about the life and work of actor, producer, director, dramatist, Shakespearean scholar and campaigner, Harley Granville-Barker. As well as his...
Podcast. Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture delivered at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Elizabethan Theatre by Sarah Beckwith. The lecture focuses on Mamillius, dealing with questions of initiation,...
Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. A look behind the scenes at the Globe’s production of Macbeth (part of their Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank series), which has been...
Feature film. Christoffer - heir to an industrial fortune - finds himself caught between professional duty and personal conflicts when his father commits suicide and he is summoned home to Denmark by his...
American satirical drama series by Jesse Armstrong that alludes to many of Shakespeare’s plays and the main premise of which (a patriarch at war with his own children over their inheritance) was directly...
Sexploitation movie. Eve Lorraine (Wiley) is a stripper who learns that she may be heiress to a fortune, but her life as a stripper threatens the inheritance. To acquire cultural credibility she studies...
In this contemporary re-working of King Lear a home for the elderly is the domain of the titular monarch. Having obtained the Power of Attorney to manage his affairs, Lear’s daughters are ecstatic and have...
In ancient Britain, the elderly King Lear plans for the future of his estate by putting his three daughters to the test. By indulging his vanity, the King delivers a terrible injustice that wrecks havoc on...
Made-for-television movie. A western version of King Lear. John Lear (Stewart) a wealthy, egomaniacal Texas rancher, challenges his three daughters to prove their love for him before they can claim their...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of Yellow Earth Theatre with Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre’s production of King Lear directed by David K.S. Tse with Chinese movie star Zhou Ye Mang as Lear....
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