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Television advertisement promoting ITV Drama. Actors from the soap operas CORONATION STREET and EMMERDALE, in different settings and contemporary dress, quote one line each from Sonnet XVIII "Shall I Compare...
Television advertisement for Carling Black Label lager. Hamlet, in Elizabethan dress, and holding Yorick’s skull on stage recites ‘Alas, poor Yorick/I knew him’. He drops the skull to gasps from the...
Television advertisement for Bird’s Eye ‘Cod in Mushroom Sauce’. June Whitfield, as Anne Hathaway, affecting a Warwickshire accent worries about Will (Terry-Thomas) who is struggling to find a title...
US television advertisement for Nextel Communications’ mobile telephones. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet played out by an all-white cast in period costume using mobile telephones and contemporary language.
An advertisement introducing McDonalds new LT hamburger by paraphrasing lines from Romeo and Juliet. Star-crossed lovers glance across a crowded room. The announcer explain ‘it’s just not good when those...
A series of television, radio and cinema advertisements for Benson and Hedges Hamlet cigars. The campaign was created in 1960 by the Collett Dickenson Pearce agency and launched in the UK in 1964 running...
US television advertisement for ‘post toasties’ . ‘The Thinker’ [the Rodin sculture], Shakespeare, and Napoleon all break stereotypical poses and reveal Toasties as "the serious breakfast food".
Political advertisement. One in a series of commercials in the ‘Stevenson for President’ campaign that featured actual and fictional people voting for Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 American Presidential...
Television advertisement for Barclay’s Bank made as part of the company’s Fluent in Finance campaign. Samuel L. Jackson recites some lines, an approximation of The Comedy of Errors (I, ii l260) `Upon my...
Advertisement. A line drawing cartoon shows William Shakespeare taking a drink from a can of Red Bull as he fluently composes lines for his latest play Hamlet, then running out of inspiration when a maid...
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