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Talk by Ormerod Greenwood on the reception of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Includes passages from Voltaire, Nase, Hazlitt, and Joyce, which are read by Leonard Sachs and Harold Scott.
A television adaptation of W.S. Gilbert’s 1891 burlesque. The script parodies the style of Shakespearean performance in the 1890s and centres on Claudius’ secret - that in his youth he was the author of...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play recorded live in front of an audience at the Globe Theatre in London. With Philip Madoc in the title role, Fiona Shaw, Mali Harries and Andrew Sachs. Directed by Alison...
Bernard Kops radio play distills elements freely adapted from Shakespeare’s tragedy into ‘A Sad Comedy with some Songs’ (subtitle). Kop’s one-act play is set in the 1950s lower-middle-class Jewish...
Radio broadcast. A series of four inventions by H.F. Rubinstein based on well-known themes of literature or history. In this episode the author speculates on the life of Shakespeare’s characters some time...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s tragedy produced for broadcasting by Charles Lefeaux. With John Rye and Mary Miller in the title roles and Edith Evans as the Nurse.
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play produced by Charles Lefeaux starring Barbara Jefford as as Isabella and William Squire as Angelo. The music is composed and conducted by Franz Reizenstein.
Radio adaptation of the play broadcast in two parts. Produced by Peter Watts, with Laurence Payne and Belle Chrystall in the title roles.
Part of a series of educational films intended to serve as an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere. Designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same...
Murder/mystery detective drama series. An amateur production of Hamlet, in which his daughter plays Ophelia, gives DCI Barnaby a clue to the murderer. The story also has Hamlet parallels in that soon after...