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Macbeth. Part 2

Synopsis
Television schools series in eight parts, examining the conflict between good and evil in medieval and Elizabethan drama. Episode 7 continues the argument that in Macbeth Shakespeare makes use of the traditions of earlier drama to portray the most complex form of the conflict of good and evil, conflict within the character of Macbeth himself.
Series
Terrible Choice
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Television
Notes
TV Times cites the Second Murderer as ‘Ronald Barker’; it has been assumed that this is the comedian Ronnie Barker but it has not been possible to verify this assumption from any other source.

The Library of Congress holds master preservation material only, no viewing copy (5/2008).
Subjects
Drama
Keywords
Elizabethan drama; schools; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Credits

Director
Roger Jenkins
Writer
Martin Worth
Contributor
Michael Hawkins
Cast
Anthony Jacobs 
Bernard Kay 
Gabriel Woolf 
George Bishop 
Mary Morris 
Michael Bryant 
Miles Malleson 
Nigel Bellairs 
Ronnie Barker 
Tony Church 
William Devlin 

Production Company

Name

Associated-Rediffusion

Archive

Name

Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division

Web
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(20) 707-8572
Fax
(20) 707-237’1
Address
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