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A collection of Shakespeare’s most inspiring speeches from the BBC Sound Archives, including: Romeo & Juliet - Act I, Scene III "O Romeo, Romeo - wherefore art thou Romeo". Spoken by Fay Compton. Hamlet...
Comedy. The story of a theatrical company and what happens in a staging of Macbeth. One night the actor playing Macbeth, interrupts the performance after he hears a cell phone ringing in the audience. From...
A ‘dance-on-camera’ film, inspired by Hamlet, and staged as a classical ballet by Singidunum.
Radio version of the play performed by the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company with Peggy Ashcroft as Portia and Michael Redgrave as Shylock. Produced by William Hughes from Denis Carey’s 1953 production...
Fiction short. A version of The Taming of the Shrew.
Radio adaptation of Sir Thomas More, a play attributed to Shakespeare, Dekker, and others, adapted for radio by Ormerod Greenwood and produced by Michael Bakewell. With Michael Hordern in the title role.
Radio play for children written by L. du Garde Peach and produced by Derek McCullough. The plot which encompasses the lives of Burbage, Shakespeare, Francis Drake, and Ben Jonson, touches on themes commonly...
Feature film. Satirical comedy commenting on greed and fame and what people are prepared to do for money. Laurence Harvey plays a famous Shakespearean who, after being paid to do so by Peter Sellers,...
Series of comedy playlets starring Jimmy Edwards, with June Whitfield and Ronnie Barker. This episode parodied The SPREAD OF THE EAGLE BBC series. Set in Roman Britain the play incorporated cod Shakespearean...
Fiction short. The Merry Wives of Windsor presented in ten scenes.
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