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Podcast series. Husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss the controversial Shakespeare comedy, The Taming of the Shrew. They also comment on some of the film adaptations including the Mary Pickford and...
Live recording of Zeffirelli’s production of Verdi’s Otello. Placido Domingo is Othello and Sherrill Milnes is Iago. The stage production was directed by Fabrizio Melano; Kirk Browning directs for...
Feature film comedy drama, based on Zeffirelli’s autobiography, concerning a group of elderly expatriate English women living in Florence in 1934. One of the group (Mary), who are known as the...
Teaching pack focusing different adaptations of Shakespeare plays. Examines Shakespeare’s language, imagery in the written text and images through filmic language, the way the plays and films combine...
Radio broadcast. Louise Swan surveys film adaptations of Shakespeare, examining the work of directors such as Laurence Olivier, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Derek Jarman, Kozintsev, Max Reinhardt,...
Television arts programme. A tribute to Laurence Olivier, broadcast on the day of his funeral. A somewhat hastily assembled miscellany of clips and critical assessments. The deepest insight comes in part...
Televised adaptation based on a National Theatre stage production by Franco Zeffirelli, starring real-life married couple Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens as Beatrice and Benedick.
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York of Verdi’s Otello. Jon Vickers sings the title role. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by James Levine. Milton Cross is...
Feature film version of the play. A bawdy and boisterous production, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, which reduces the play to the Katharina/Petruccio romance
Combined book and audio CD. Includes Ellen Terry in a 1911 recording compared with a Kate Beckinsale recording from 1997. There are contributions from Kenneth Branagh, John Gielgud, Judi Dench and Joseph...
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