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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)].
Feature film. Set in 1927 Iowa where Walter Hale (Presley) manages a Chautauqua show. Mr Morality (Price) is a lecturer. In one scene he quotes from Nietzsche, Jonson, Confucius and Shakespeare. In a later...
Radio broadcast. Poetry, prose and music inspired by Shakespeare, including words by Ted Hughes, Margaret Atwood, T.S. Eliot, Carol Ann Duffy and W.B. Yeats, and music by Sibelius, Elvis Costello, Duke...
Video recording of Rupert Goold’s 2011 staging of The Merchant of Venice with Patrick Stewart as Shylock and Susannah Fielding as Portia.
US comedy variety show hosted by Steve Allen. This episode features actor Andy Griffith, as a yogi,explaining Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a comedy monologue. The edition is renowned for the appearance of Elvis...
Murder mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as the mystery writer-cum amateur detective, Jessica Fletcher. In this episode there is rivalry for the coveted post of headmaster at St Crispin’s Academy....
Videorecording of the Theatre for a New Audience production of Troilus and Cressida. Directed for the stage by Peter Hall and videotaped for TOFT (Theatre on Film and Tape Archive) by Patrick Hoffmann. Joey...
Musical/Documentary. "RAPPING WITH SHAKESPEARE is a modern day hip-hop version of Shakespeare’s tales that explores the lives of five South Central Los Angeles teenagers attending Crenshaw High School. The...
Video recording of Lee Breuer’s production of King Lear set in the American South in the 1950s, with the gender roles of the major characters reversed: Lear is a woman with three sons. Videotaped for TOFT...
A production, for Polish television, of 2007:Macbeth, Grzegorz Jarzyna’s multimedia, politically orientated version of Macbeth set against a background of terrorism. Cezary Losinski and Aleksandra...
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