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Leading actors perform some of Shakespeare’s greatest speeches in a video series to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund’s soliloquy from the start of Act I,...
Feature film. Indian re-working of Macbeth set in 1850s India in the time of the Sepoy Mutiny.
Video podcast. Professor Katherine Duncan Jones, Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, gives a talk on Venus and Adonis. In 1592-93, with London playhouses closed because of plague, Shakespeare wrote...
A videotape recording of a production of The Tempest staged by the Venezuelan theatre group Rajatabla as part of the New York Shakespeare Festival’s Festival Latino. Directed for stage by Carlos Gimenez,...
Experimental film based on Robert Lepage’s 1988 stage play which explores the notion that human interaction is as volatile and as unpredictable as the shifting of the Earth. Madeleine (Marie Gignac) is an...
Video recording, using a single fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2006 production of The Tempest directed by Rupert Goold. Patrick Stewart is Prospero.
Low-budget adaptation of the play using chiaroscuro lighting, location shooting, unusual casting, and eccentric costuming. The film remains faithful to the spirit of the play. Jarman’s understanding of the...
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 2 - David Walliams performs ‘In my stars I am above thee’ from Twelfth...
Music from filmed Shakespeare plays performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic and Crouch End Festival Chorus, conducted by Paul Bateman, Nic Raine and Kenneth Alwyn. Also included are well known dialogue...
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