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  1. As You Like It (1992) (1992 Film)

    Director
    Christine Edzard
    Producer
    Celia Bannerman; George Reinhart; Oliver Stockman
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 minutes), £25.40

    Low-budget, feature-length version of the play in a modern urban London setting. According to The Guardian (2019), director Christine Edzard makes it into a ‘thinly veiled commentary on the inequalities of...

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  2. Comedy of Errors, The (1983) (1983 Television)

    aka: The Shakespeare Plays

    Director
    James Cellan Jones
    Producer
    Shaun Sutton
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110), £12.99

    Television production with Michael Kitchen and Roger Daltrey doubling the roles of Antipholus and Dromio respectively. The ‘commedia dell arte style is underscored by the integration of mimes into the play.

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  3. King Lear (1983 Audio, Radio)

    Producer
    John Tydeman
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    2 audiocassettes. Stereo., 1992 sale: £7.15

    Radio adaptation of the play produced by John Tydeman. With Alec Guinness as Lear; Jill Bennett, Eileen Atkins, Sarah Badel, star as his daughters, and Ronald Pickup as the Fool. The music is composed by...

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  4. Portrait of a Library (1976 Film)

    Director
    Kieran Hickey
    Subject
    Librarianship
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A portrait of the National Library of Ireland and its collections. Notes the effect of its evolution on present practice. Stresses its value as a primary source for social history and educational role in...

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  5. Golden Bowl, The (1972)

    Director
    James Cellan Jones
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 257 minutes), £19.99

    Daniel Massey and Jill Townsend star in the BBC’s 1972 adaptation of the Henry James novel in which a cracked golden bowl plays a key role in exposing the artifice within a wealthy family.

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  6. King Lear (1971) (1971 Film)

    Director
    Peter Brook
    Producer
    Michael Birkett
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 137 minutes), £29.99

    The relentlessly cold and unemotional interpretation was heavily influenced by the essay, ‘King Lear or Endgame’, in which the Polish poet/critic/academic Jan Kott argued that Lear should be interpreted...

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  7. Taming of the Shrew, The (1967) (1967 Film, Video)

    Director
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Producer
    Franco Zeffirelli; Richard Burton; Elizabeth Taylor
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 117 minutes), £3.99

    Feature film version of the play. A bawdy and boisterous production, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, which reduces the play to the Katharina/Petruccio romance

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  8. King Lear (Audio-Harper) (1965 Audio)

    Director
    Howard Sackler
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, 4 audiocassettes., 1992 sale: £15.99

    A complete performance with Paul Scofield as Lear.

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  9. Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)

    Director
    John Guillermin
    Producer
    Peter De Sarigny
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £9.99

    Film based on Jean Anouilh’s stage play in which a retired lecherous general finds his past creeping up on him and he loses his young mistress. Starring Peter Sellers.

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  10. Troilus and Cressida (1962 Audio)

    Director
    Howard Sackler
    Subject
    Drama

    A recording of Troilus and Cressida by the Shakespeare Recording Society directed by Howard Sackler. Jeremy Brett and Diane Cilento in the title roles.

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