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Fiction film. A highly abbreviated version of Macbeth with Georgette Leblanc-Maeterlinck as Lady Macbeth and Severin-Mars as Macbeth. No further details known.
Independent fiction short. Four Elizabethan office workers find themselves in the high-rise office of a 16th-century therapist who bears a close resemblance to Shakespeare. They undergo group therapy in...
Fiction short. A version of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Ball (op cit) notes that Fenton, Shallow, Slender, Sir Hugh Evans, Doctor Caius and Mistress Quickly are omitted.
Fiction film. The first filmed version of Hamlet to be produced in England. For a detailed account of the complicated provenance of this film see Ball, especially pp.318-20.
Fiction film. A young woman and her fiance attend a performance of Romeo and Juliet starring a matinee idol billed as ‘the modern Garrick’. The woman becomes infatuated with the actor and craves to play...
Fiction film. An abridged version of Hamlet which begins with the graveyard scene and ends with the duel scene. Hamlet also sees Ophelia’s ghost. Ball (op cit) writes: ‘It is easy to brand this...
A science fiction suspense anime television series set in a future where humans and AutoReiv androids coexist peacefully until a virus gives the robots self-awareness, causing them to commit a series of...
Independent short. 1967. A young student struggles to write a screenplay that will combine STAR WARS with SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE.
Fiction short. An alcoholic tramp, and former actor, living around Charing Cross, London recalls lines from Romeo and Juliet which underline his own life.
Radio programme. In this episode of the BBC Proms’ literary interval programme Ian McMillan is joined by children’s writer Jamila Garvin who presents her favourite writing on the subject of ‘Other...
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