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Ayanna Thompson, director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University, discusses the work of director Peter Sellars. She and Sellars are both interviewed by Barbara...
4-disc DVD containing the four plays transmitted as part of the BBC’s THE HOLLOW CROWN series - Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 and Henry V. See the individual entries for full cast, broadcast and...
Educational film. A large part of Shakespeare’s heritage was rural and not yet touched by Renaissance ideas. The film explains King Lear in the context of life and culture in the Middle Ages, The...
Trailer for HENRY V (1944) available on the Internet Archive (accessed 6/2007). The trailer is completely different from, and much longer, than the copy held by the BFI National Archive and it is surmised...
Russian television version of Richard II directed by Roman Fedotov and Yevgeni Ziobin with Aleksandr Romanstov in the title role.
An open-air production of Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Following a prophecy that he will be King, the impatient and ambitious General Macbeth plots and murders to secure his destiny with disastrous...
Independent film directed by Peter Babakitis which offers parallels with Western colonialism and the invasion of Iraq.
Independent feature film. A prequel to Hamlet, taking place in medieval Denmark twenty-three years before the play and featuring many of the characters from Hamlet with Yorick as the film’s hero.
Trailer for HENRY V (1944). Laurence Olivier is seen seated at Denham Studios in 1944. He reads a letter he has written to Filippo Del Giudice telling him of the completion of the film. There follows a...
A performance of Hamlet in a traditional setting, with Will Houston as Hamlet.
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