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Macbeth (1971 Film)

aka: Tragedy of Macbeth

Director

Roman Polanski

Producer

Andrew Braunsberg

Feature film. Haunting and unsparing in the realism, Polanski’s unique and pessimistic vision confronts both the dark comic elements and terror of the play’s violence. Jon Finch and Francesca Annis are...

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Life of King Henry V, The (1949 Radio)

Series

Saturday-Night Theatre

Producer

Frank Hauser

'Streamlined’ radio version of the play produced and adapted for broadcasting by Frank Hauser with a youthful Richard Burton in the title role. The play, shortened to fit the 90-minute slot, concentrates...

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Umabatha (1997 Video)

Director

Welcome Msomi

A Zulu version of Macbeth incorporating music and dance. ‘Shakespeare’s Macbeth was chosen by Welcome Msomi as perfect source material on which to base a Zulu adaptation, as it seemed ‘almost a carbon...

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Wars of the Roses, The: King Richard III (1952 Radio)

aka: King Richard III

Series

Wars of the Roses, The

Producer

Peter Watts

Radio version of the play adapted and produced by Peter Watts and broadcast as part of a sequence of Shakespeare’s histories. With Donald Wolfit as Richard and Joan Hart as Elizabeth. The fanfares are...

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Shakespeare on Screen (2001 Audio, Video)

Series

Open University Aa306

A programme supporting the AA 306: Shakespeare; Text and Performance course. The audio and video resources for the course offer an insight into Shakespeare’s plays in close relation to the social and...

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Julius Caesar (1969 Television)

Series

Play of the Month

Director

Alan Bridges

Producer

Cedric Messina

Televised adaptation of the play with Maurice Denham as Caesar and Robert Stephens as Mark Antony.

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Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War

Date

3 Feb 2015, 10:34

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War by Alfred Thomas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 265 pages, ISBN: 978-1403911643 (hardback) £55.00 About the reviewer: Dr Erica Sheen teaches and researches in the...

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Orson Welles’ Macbeth Restored (1948 Film)

aka: Macbeth (1948)

Director

Orson Welles

Producer

Orson Welles

Feature film adaptation of the Welles’s B-movie production. The video and DVDs are fully restored versions of Orson Welles’ MACBETH, based on his Mercury Theatre production.

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Histories of Channel 4

Date

16 Jan 2012, 17:20

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

BUFVC Review

A Licence to be Different: The Story of Channel 4 by Maggie Brown (BFI Publishing, October 2007), 368 pages, ISBN: 9781844572052 (paperback), £16.99; ISBN: 978-1844572045 (hardback), £50.00 Channel 4: The...

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Essential Shakespeare Live, The (2005 Audio)

A compilation of 20 extracts from live recordings made by the British Library Sound Archive of Royal Shakespeare Company productions over four decades. The set offers scenes and speeches from some of the...

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