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CD-ROM with the complete audio version of the play alongside the the complete Alexander text, together with photographs taken from past performances. Includes scenes from the BBC Shakespeare production with...
Recording of an online lecture by Dr Anthony Quinn, introduced by Rossella M. Riccobono. The lecture includes analyses of the films made from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by Francis X Bushman and John W...
Recording of a live lecture by Dr Anthony Quinn on Romeo and Juliet, which focuses in part on three film versions: the George Cukor version released in 1936, the Renato Castellani adaptation from 1954 and...
Documentary. Explores the history of films based on Shakespeare’s plays. There are interview extracts with Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, Roman Polanski, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Franco...
A feature film adaptation, much cut, and aimed at a mainstream, young audience. Beautifully photographed and costumed, the film was a huge box office success and a forerunner of the ‘teen movie’.
Feature film version of the play. A naturalistic and literal reading with few interpretative touches. Gibson’s Hamlet is a man of action and with the text heavily cut (over 80%) he dominates the majority...
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...