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Comedian Ronald Frankau, in a dinner suit, stands by a piano (played by Monte Crick) and partly sings, partly recites, a humorous monologue on the theme of Shakespeare was a playboy ‘with a naughty...
Comedian Ronald Frankau, in his customary top hat and tails and smoking a cigarette in a long holder, recites a humorous rhyming monologue on blood in Shakespeare’s plays because ‘I like to see a murder...
Newsfilm item. Backstage at a puppet show version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There are shots of the puppets being manipulated by the puppeteers and the show in front of the curtain as seen by the...
British Pathe newsfilm item. Preparations for, and scenes from, a production of Macbeth at the Minack Cliff Theatre, an open-air theatre in Porthcurno, Cornwall which opened in 1932. Includes shots of the...
The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet in the Birmingham Repertory Company production directed by H.K. Ayliff and performed by John Gielgud and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. The set, designed by Paul Shelving, is...
Regional arts documentary series. Theatre director Stewart Trotter believes that Shakespeare came to Titchfield, Hampshire to live in the household of his patron, the 3rd Earl of Southampton. Narrated by...
Newsreel item. Nurses and wounded soldiers at Bournbrook Military Hospital in Birmingham watch an open-air production of Twelfth Night.
News item from Meridian news presented by Sarah Shepheard. A pub in Swanmore, Hampshire, is hosting a Shakespeare night on the karaoke. The two-minute item includes shots of a woman reading on the karaoke,...
Regional television broadcast. Cleo Laine sings Shakespeare’s words set to music by Johnny Dankworth. Simon Callow reads from the sonnets.
News programme. Includes a two-minute report on the work of the English Shakespeare Company actors helping with the teaching of Shakespeare to students at Wakefield Comprehensive in West Yorkshire. The...
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