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Excerpts produced for a school audience. Shows the murder of Duncan (II ii) and the sleepwalking scene (V i). The London Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Muir Matheson.
Television series of filmed classics. Charles Laughton recites from the Bible and other texts, reads poetry, tells stories and jokes including a reading from Twelfth Night (II iv).
Fiction short. Alice Day is Juliet in a rustic stage performance of Romeo and Juliet. Ball notes ‘I wish I had seen, a Mack Sennett Romeo and Juliet with the hilariously cross-eyed Ben Turpin as Romeo. In...
Fiction film. Richard III with William V. Ranous directing himself in the title role.
Abridged version of the play, presumably aimed at schoolteachers. There is no attempt to employ cinematic techniques and language to illuminate the action and narrative, but a competent and serious version...
Maynard Mack, Yale University, uses portraits (e.g. Sir Francis Drake), maps (Visscher’s View) and models (Globe Playhouse) to discuss the relationship between the age of Elizabeth and Hamlet. He reflects...
US anthology drama series. OTHELLO is directed by Delbert Mann with Torin Thatcher as Othello and Walter Matthau as Iago.
Fiction film version of Othello, filmed mostly on location in Venice, with Ferruccio Garavaglia as Othello.
A version of The Merchant of Venice. Ball surmises that Shylock may have been played by William V. Ranous who probably directed. The Moving Picture World (January 9 1909) noted ‘An ambitious film. The...
Professor Mack of Yale University divides the play into three sections: a ghost story, a detective story, and a revenge story. and discusses the major characters and movements, illustrated with scenes from...