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Two-part television drama chronicling the later years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. In the theatrical DVD version there is a scene which was not included in the second part of the broadcast programme....
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...
Radio play by Don Taylor. Asked by one of the Earl of Essex’s agents to stage Richard II, William Shakespeare (Michael Pennington) and other members of the Globe Theatre Company are drawn into a conspiracy...
An introduction to the play which attempts to reproduce Elizabethan acting procedures such as having the same actors playing several roles, thus showing how the plays were originally written for a specific...
Series of twelve educational films designed as ‘an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere’. This extract features sequences from Macbeth - the witches’ prophecies (Ii, Iiii) and Macbeth...
US sitcom. Guest appearances from Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Richard Burton had recently bought Taylor a 69-carat diamond ring, a gift which features prominently in the episode (Lucy gets the ring...
Video recording of Richard Cottrell’s 1983 production of Richard II for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with Brian Bedford in the title role.
Three-part radio series presented by Jonathan Bate. In the first episode Bate shows how Elizabethans under Queen Elizabeth presided over a flowering of literature and maps and ‘discovered England’. Bate...
Fourth of a twenty-part radio series in which the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, presents an object-based history of the time of Shakespeare to explore how Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences...
Feature film comedy. Tommy Handley and friends are transported back in time to Elizabethan England. Among various encounters with Elizabethans, Susie Barton enters the Globe theatre and finds William...
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