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Television series, in six episodes, on the life and times of William Shakespeare. Writer John Mortimer based each episode around events in Shakespeare’s life to suggest how they influenced his writing. In...
Originally staged by Jonathan Miller at the Old Vic in 1970 and then at the National Theatre, London in 1971, the production was subsequently recorded for television. The production is set in Venice in the...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s comedy adapted and produced by John Powell starring Fenella Fielding as Beatrice, Paul Daneman as Benedick and Ralph Richardson as Dogberry. With music composed by David Cain...
A production staged for television by John Sichel with Joan Plowright as Viola/Sebastian, Alec Guinness as Malvolio, Tommy Steele as Feste and Ralph Richardson as Sir Toby Belch.
Television drama. Written by John Mortimer, this six-part drama based on the sixteen years that William Shakespeare is known to have spent in London remains one of the most ambitious biographical portraits...
American sitcom. Derek Jacobi guest stars as an over-the-hill actor (Jackson Headley) whose career is now typecast playing Tobor (robot spelt backwards), an android character in a television series ‘Space...
Animated cartoon burlesque. ‘Amlet drives Ophelia mad by offering her vegetables instead of flowers, then cutting off her hair ("to bob or not to bob"). Laertes complains to the King of ‘Amlet’s...
Radio broadcast. Much Ado About Nothing adapted and produced by John Powell with Paul Daneman as Benedick, Fenella Fielding as Beatrice and Ralph Richardson as Dogberry.
Feature film. A record of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson and the Drury Lane Company’s production of the play. `... the film’s chief purpose is to preserve a performance and a production and makes few...
Television production of the play, with John Cleese as Petruchio and Sarah Badel as Katherina.
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