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Syndicated television detective drama series. In this episode, during the German occupation of France, Colonel Kurt Schmidt, a Nazi, extorts a First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, from a French...
A re-imagining of Julius Caesar Act I, sc. ii with Tony Osoba as Caesar and Mark Stanley as Brutus. The video is part of a series of films commissioned by the British Council throughout 2016.
Feature film. A parable set in a fictitious West African country rent by 10 years of tribal conflict between the ruling Nayak and the rebel Bonande. The director has stated that she saw Shakespearean...
US variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. Includes a brief routine from comedian Sammy Shore who imitates Elvis Presley acting Shakespeare. [Sadly, no further information known (5/2007)].
Short documentary that explores adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays by First Nations peoples in Canada. Its focus is Death of a Chief, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Death of a Chief was...
Detective series set in the 1950s, loosely inspired by the character created by GK Chesterton. Father Brown (played by Mark Williams) offers to play the Friar in a production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado...
Accompanying event to the British Library’s ‘Shakespeare in Ten Acts’ exhibition. Director and members of cast discuss the 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream....
New radio production (in two halves) of Nick Dear’s 2016 stage play that explores Shakespeare’s relationship with the Earl of Southampton by putting the author on trial.
Part two of a new radio production of Nick Dear’s 2016 stage play that explores Shakespeare’s relationship with the Earl of Southampton by putting the author on trial.
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of a play reading of Leo Butler’s play One of These Days, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company for The Complete Works Festival. A dark love story,...
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