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Itv Drama Advertisement (2013 Television)

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...

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Scenes from ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Soliloquies from ‘Hamlet’ And Five Sonnets (1951 Audio)

Series

Decca Gold Label

Scenes from Shakespeare read by John Gielgud and Pamela Brown. Scenes from Romeo and Juliet. What lady’s that, which doth enrich the hand (I v); He jests at scars that never felt a wound (II ii); Wilt thou...

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Royal Gala: Symphony for the Spire (1991 Television)

Director

Mike Mansfield

Producer

Hilary Stewart

Television programme. A charity concert devised by Prince Charles in support of the Salisbury Cathedral spire appeal. Placido Domingo, Jessye Norman, Ofra Harnoy, Charlton Heston and Phil Collins give...

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Henry V Globe Theatre (1978 Film)

Producer

Laurence Olivier

Uses an excerpt from Olivier’s 1944 production of HENRY V to demonstrate the Globe theatre. Opens with a shot of an elaborate model of London in 1600 and shows London bridge, a general impression of the...

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Tombstone (1993 Film)

Director

George P. Cosmatos

Producer

James Jacks; Sean Daniel; Bob Misiorowski

Feature film. Excessively violent, melodramatic, fanciful and overlong retelling of the Wyatt Earp legend. Includes an early scene in which a young actor in a travelling stage show, playing to a rowdy saloon...

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Book of Hours, A (2008 Radio)

Series

Words and Music

Radio programme on the theme of different times of the day. This episode ends with Romeo and Juliet debating whether the bird they can hear is a nightingale or a lark (III v) that heralds the beginning of a...

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Shakespeare at the Movies (2001 Audio)

Music from filmed Shakespeare plays performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic and Crouch End Festival Chorus, conducted by Paul Bateman, Nic Raine and Kenneth Alwyn. Also included are well known dialogue...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1909 Film)

Director

J. Stuart Blackton; Charles Kent

Abbreviated version of the play closely following the original with the exception of a new character, Penelope. It is she who quarrels with Titania and tells Puck to bewitch Titania.

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William Shakespeare: A Poet for All Time (1998 Video)

aka: Poet for All Time

Series

Master Poets Collection

Director

Mike Gibbon

Producer

Marshall Jamison

Alan Howard presents some of Shakespeare’s best known passages. Contents: As you like it ( ‘All the world’s a stage’); Sonnet 30 (`When to the sessions of sweet silent thought’); Sonnet 18 (`Shall...

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Like a Beautiful Smile (2003 Audio, Video)

aka: Inside the Songs of Sacred Love

The last track on SACRED LOVE, Sting’s ninth album, ‘Like a beautiful smile’ is a lyrical setting of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 ('Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’). In the DVD commentary,...

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