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A public service announcement. William Shakespeare explains the dangers of his literary reputation falling into neglect on the college campus due to lack of finance - the announcement concludes’the money...
A television commercial for the BIC Banana pen ("which comes in ten expressive colours"). Shakespeare is having trouble expressing himself writing with an ordinary ballpoint and even today, the voice-over...
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.
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...
An advertisement for Tide detergent shown on a billboard in Times Square, New York City. It offers a parody of Macbeth’s ‘is this a dagger I see before me’ speech. The advertising agency is Saatchi &...
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".
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...
US television commercial for NYNEX Yellow Pages. A baseball manager with a penchant for quoting Shakespeare says, ‘to bunt or not to bunt, that is the question, whether ‘tis nobler to lay one down the...
US television variety show/sitcom. The episode is sponsored by Lux Liquid and Lux Soap. Don Wilson does the ‘half-time’ commercial as a Shakespearean soliloquy.
UK television commercial for Gordon’s gin. A glamorous gathering in a theatre bar, people drinking and chatting. A young woman (Fox) holds a glass of gin and tonic with lime. She says to her male companion...
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