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Television arts documentary series. A profile of Nigel Hawthorne as he prepares to play the title role in King Lear, directed by Ninagawa, for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The programme follows him through...
Radio documentary. Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, 97 years old, talks about her performance as Juliet and other Shakespearean women in conversation with Nigel Hawthorne. Ffrangcon-Davies recites extracts from Romeo...
Radio play by Hugh Sykes Davies on Delia Bacon’s publication of The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded (1857), a theory on the authorship of Shakespeare’s writings, which Nathaniel Hawthorne...
Television arts documentary series. The career of Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, with strong emphasis on her favourite Shakespearean role, Juliet. Includes contributions from her fellow actors, Nigel Hawthorne in...
A Japanese television documentary about the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of King Lear directed by Yukio Ninagawa starring Nigel Hawthorne as Lear. The programme is directed by Hiroyuki Sanada who...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted and produced for broadcasting by R. D. Smith, starring Judi Dench as Julia, Michael Harbour as Proteus and Denys Hawthorne as Valentine. With music specially...
Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, produced and directed by David Spenser. With Nigel Hawthorne, Diana Quick and Maureen O’Brien. The music is specially composed by Terence Allbright and performed...
A video recording, using a single fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 co-production of King Lear. Directed by Yukio Ninagawa with Nigel Hawthorne as Lear and Sanada Hiroyuki as the Fool.
Adapted from Alan Bennett’s stage play ‘The Madness of George III’, the film focuses on King George’s deteriorating mental condition that opens the door for court intrigue and the usurping of the...
An unabridged recording of the play using the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition edited by A.R. Braunmuller. Stephen Dillane and Fiona Shaw are the Macbeths.
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