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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...
Romeo and Juliet with Francesca Bertini as Juliet and Gustavo Serena as Romeo.
A film of the final scene in Hamlet with Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet. The film depicts Hamlet’s body being caught by Horatio. The film also included a soundtrack (primarily of sound effects) synchronised...
A British wartime aviator who cheats death by miraculously surviving bailing out of his plane without a parachute must argue for his life before a celestial court. Fantasy film, ostensibly produced with the...
A history of performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, commissioned to celebrate the RSC’s 25th anniversary. Features reminiscences by famous actors who have played there: James Dale, who...
Emilio Cossira singing a tenor aria from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Ball hazards a guess that the aria was ‘Ah! Lève-toi soleil’. The film experimented with a synchronised sound system outlined by...
Feature film. A story about street hustlers that incorporates a reworking of the Hal/King Henry/Falstaff triangle. Some of the dialogue is taken from Henry IV Part 1.
Feature film. A former theatre director, Dima Kamentsev, stages Richard III using young amateur actors. He engages a ‘difficult’ teenager, nicknamed ‘Milord’ to play the part of Richard. No further...
Documentary composed of material salvaged from Semerdjiev’s failed multimedia project I, HAMLET. Composed of what remains of the original footage, along with making-of rushes and newly shot interviews, THE...
Adventure comedy. Bill Shakespeare dreams of becoming a playwright but his wife Anne Hathaway wants him to provide for his brood. Unpeturbed, Bill packs his knapsack and heads to the capital, where he...
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