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Much Ado About Nothing (1960 Audio)

Director

George Rylands

Complete performance by the Marlowe Dramatic Society, with Peggy Ashcroft and John Gielgud as Beatrice and Benedick.

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All the World’s a Stage: A Collection of Shakespeare’s Speeches (2007 Audio)

Series

BBC Archive Voices

A collection of Shakespeare’s most inspiring speeches from the BBC Sound Archives, including: Romeo & Juliet - Act I, Scene III "O Romeo, Romeo - wherefore art thou Romeo". Spoken by Fay Compton. Hamlet...

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Anton Chekhov Collection, The (2008)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 1094 minutes), £33.58

A 6-disc set of BBC television productions of Chekhov’s plays. Contents: PLATONOV with Rex Harrison in the title role (Play of the Month, 1971); THE WOOD DEMON with Ian Holm in the lead role (1974); THE...

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Antony and Cleopatra (1960 Radio)

Producer

R. D. Smith

Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted and produced by R. D. Smith. With Anthony Nicholls as Mark Antony, June Tobin as Cleopatra and John Slater as Enobarbus. The music is specially composed by...

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Twelfth Night (1958 Radio)

Director

Peter Hall

Producer

Peter Dews

Radio recording of Peter Hall’s stage production of the play at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Adapted and produced for broadcasting by Peter Dews, starring Dorothy Tutin as...

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Hamlet (2004 Video)

Director

Philip Zanden

Video recording of Philip Zanden’s 2004 production of Hamlet for the Stadsteatern Stockholm with Helena Bergstrom as Hamlet. Role names (other than Horatio) unknown (2/2008).

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In the Land of the War Canoes (1972 Film)

aka: In the Land of the Headhunters

Director

Edward S Curtis

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A romanticised saga of Kwakiutl Indian life on the northwest coast of America, filmed in 1914 by Edward S Curtis, who was already famous for his still photographs of Indians, and his writings about them. It...

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Wars of the Roses, The: Adapted from the Henry VI Plays and Richard III by William Shakespeare (2016)

Director

Peter Hall; John Barton

Subject

Drama; Shakespeare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 505 minutes), £29.99

The Wars of the Roses is a version of the RSC’s landmark production of William Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy and Richard III. Adapted and directed for the stage by Peter Hall and John Barton, The Wars...

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Oh! What a Lovely War (2006)

Director

Richard Attenborough

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 144 minutes), £15.99

A restored version of Richard Attenborough’s directorial debut film which re-interprets real First World War events as a musical. Based on the 1963 radio play written by Charles Chiltern which was adapted...

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Merchant of Venice, The (1963 Audio)

Director

Peter Wood

A complete performance with Dorothy Tutin as Portia and Hugh Griffith as Shylock.

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