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A special in the comedy and music series hosted by Carol Burnett. Includes a brief sketch in which Carl Reiner and Robin Williams have a backstage talk which leads to a parody of Shakespeare with Reiner...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Mark Thornton Burnett speaks on foreign-language film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. "To imitate Shakespeare or to use Shakespeare either on stage or in...
Podcast hosted by Thomas Dabbs (Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan). In this edition Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen’s University, Belfast) discusses film adaptations of Shakespeare from around the...
Advertisement. A man quotes Shakespeare to impress a female companion at a diner. No further information known (12/2007).
Music video and commercial inspired by the story of Romeo and Juliet and directed by David Lachapelle for the fashion company H&M’s `&denim’ (`This is the Season to be Gorgeous’) range . Burnett &...
Feature film post-war western, based on a story by W.R. Burnett and with parallels to The Tempest. Tells the story of an outlaw leader, Stretch (Peck), who takes refuge in a frontier ghost town. The only...
Documentary on John Butler’s ballet. Shows rehearsal footage and includes a discussion by Butler and others about the ballet’s technical and dramatic demands. Butler, who was born in Mississippi, looks...
Radio play written by Christopher William Hill. Ian Richardson plays Oxford academic A. L. Rowse, best known for his overly confident identification of "the Dark Lady" of Shakespeare’s sonnets. The play...
An advertisement introducing McDonalds new LT hamburger by paraphrasing lines from Romeo and Juliet. Star-crossed lovers glance across a crowded room. The announcer explain ‘it’s just not good when those...
In the first week of November, each weekday edition of the BBC radio programme MORNING ON 3 featured two pieces of music inspired by Shakespeare. The following pieces of music were broadcast on this date:...