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Podcast. Dr. Pamela Allen Brown talks to Barbara Bogaev about the impact of the Italian troups that played for English audiences from the 1570s onwards and which included actresses - the so-called ‘Dive’...
Television production of George Bernard Shaw’s short play of 1910 in which Shakespear (Shaw’s spelling) has an assignation with the Dark Lady, but encounters Queen Elizabeth as well, to whom he puts an...
Act 1, Scene 5 of Twelfth Night is played first in modern English pronounciation and then in what is conjectured to be Elizabethan English. In the Elizabethan version the women’s parts are spoken by male...
Video recording of the production of The Taming of the Shrew directed by Peter Hinton for the 2008 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Evan Buliung is Petruchio and Irene Poole plays Katherina.
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play arranged and abridged for broadcasting by Peter Creswell. with Geofrey Toone in the title role, Abraham Sofaer as Aufidius and Cecil Haumphreys as Meneneius. Music by...
A recording of Hamlet by the Marlowe Dramatic Society directed by George Rylands. Anthony White is Hamlet.
Shakespeare’s play (without the subplot but with an extra story teller) arranged as a sequence for broadcasting and produced by Peter Creswell. With Godfrey Tearle in the title role.
Condensed version of The Taming of the Shrew concentrating on the wooing and winning of Katharina by Petruchio. Ball (op cit. p. 286) is underwhelmed by the film finding the camera stationary, the acting too...
Feature film which appears to have combined great charm and ribaldry. Ball, summarising contemporary reviews, writes: ‘Theseus was shown at the telephone, Amazons and Athenians moved into battle to the...
Television production shot entirely in a studio with Derek Jacobi as Hamlet and Claire Bloom as Gertrude.
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