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Variety show. Includes a ten-minute item in which Danish/American entertainer and comedian Victor Borge visits Elsinore castle inspiring a comedy version of Hamlet.
Feature film comedy. Victor Garnett (Walls) a rich bachelor marries wealthy, spoilt and shrewish Patricia Lynton (Jane Baxter) whereupon he tries to mould her into his ideal woman. Enraged by Victor’s...
Sound recording. Ellen Terry reading from Act II i of Much Ado About Nothing.
A. R. Humphreys, University of Leicester, and Anthony Nuttall, University of Sussex, discuss the character of Coriolanus and the play’s concept of nobility. Side 2 comprises readings by Robert Hardy,...
Radio broadcast. Excerpts from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are performed by Lady Tree, wife of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, as part of a programme for children. Felicity Tree sings and Victor...
A video recording of Kiss Me, Kate choreographed and directed by Donald Saddler for the 1989 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Jayne Lewis is Lilli Vanessi and Victor A. Young is Fred Graham.
Two one-act ballets by the Moscow City Ballet. Romeo and Juliet, inspired by Tchaikovsky’s overture, was the first ballet to be choreographed and staged by Victor Smirnov-Golovanov and the debut...
Radio broadcast. The tribute to David Garrick is comprised of 3 excerpts from David Garrick, a play written by T.W. Robertson and performed by The Station Dramatic Repertory Company, and music and songs...
Feature film. David Garnet, a tin magnate, dies leaving his fortune to his wastral son on the condition that he settles down within two years. The son, King Garnet, becomes a tramp and so the business passes...
David Daiches, University of Sussex, and L C Knights, University of Cambridge, discuss the play. Hamlet, more than any other play, has produced many and divergent interpretations. The speakers consider the...
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