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Old Actor, The (1912 Film)

Director

D.W. Griffith

Fiction short. A Shakespearean actor loses his part as the manager feels that he is too old. Helping a beggar in the street he is surprised to see how much money the beggar has made. Unable to get new work...

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King’s a Beggar - Now the Play is Done, The (2000 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Lectures

Producer

Tanya Hudson

BBC radio series. Six commissioned lectures on Shakespeare and his meaning in the modern world. In episode 1 Professor Germaine Greer argues that Shakespeare’s neglected play King John is one of the most...

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Seven Lears (1990 Audio)

Director

Kenny Ireland

Live audio recording at the Royal Court Theatre, London of Howard Barker’s play Seven Lears, a prequel to King Lear in which Barker re-invents and enlarges the roles of Lear’s women. The play is divided...

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King Lear (1987 Audio)

Director

David Hare

Live audio recording of David Hare’s 1987 production of King Lear with Anthony Hopkins as Lear.

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Die Beiden aus Verona (1960 Radio)

aka: Those Two from Verona

Producer

Hans-Dieter Schwarze

Gert Hofmann’s radio drama re-visits the story of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, examining the myth of everlasting love. Through divine intervention by Jupiter, the lovers in Hofmann’s version do not...

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