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Two programmes made in Stratford-on-Avon and London looking at Shakespeare’s life and the environment in which he wrote his plays. C. Walter Hodges talks about Elizabethan theatre, Professor John Russell...
A musical set in old Vienna about the composer Otto Nicolai, who wrote Die Lustige Weiber von Windsor, based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. The film incorporates some of Nicolai’s music...
Webcast. Harold Bloom lectures on Shakespeare and the nature of genius.
This scene comprises part of the video compilation ‘Theatrical Motions Pictures from the Paper Print Collection’ of the Library Congress. Shot by cameraman G W Bitzer in New York City on 15 July 1905,...
Radio production, directed and adapted by Brewster Morgan, of Much Ado About Nothing with Leslie Howard as Benedick and Rosalind Russell as Beatrice. Narrated by Conway Tearle.
Romeo and Juliet with Francesca Bertini as Juliet and Gustavo Serena as Romeo.
Radio broadcast in which Alec Guinness discusses Shakespeare. No further details known (10/2007).
RKO comedy short. A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over the source of Shakespearean speeches. Lanier (op cit) notes that the film is ‘revealing for its assumptions about the highbrow status...
Fiction comedy short. Misadventures of a travelling company of actors performing Hamlet for one night in a small town. When the troupe’s leading lady deserts the show for a better paying job as a waitress,...
US children’s drama series starring the German Shepherd dog Rin Tin Tin. Lieut. Rip Masters accepts O’Connor’s offer to feature Shakespearian actor Roland Tarleton in a Shakespearean play staged to...
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