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Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1982) (1983 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Director

David Jones

Producer

Shaun Sutton

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 167 minutes), £12.99

Television production of the play with Richard Griffiths as Falstaff and Prunella Scales as Mistress Page. Director David Jones regarded the play as ‘a realistic documentary about what life was like in a...

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Antony and Cleopatra (1981 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Director

Jonathan Miller

Producer

Jonathan Miller

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 170 minutes), £12.99

BBC production directed by Jonathan Miller with Colin Blakely and Jane Lapotaire in the title roles.

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Imitation Game, The (1980 Film, Video)

Director

Richard Eyre

Producer

Richard Eyre

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £7.99

Ian McEwan’s play in which the character Cathy, a young middle-class woman, joins the ATS during the Second World War in 1940. The play has been described by Sight & Sound (November 2018), as an excellent...

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Taming of the Shrew, The (1980) (1980 Television)

aka: The Shakespeare Plays

Director

Jonathan Miller

Producer

Jonathan Miller

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 128 minutes), £12.99

Television production of the play, with John Cleese as Petruchio and Sarah Badel as Katherina.

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King Lear (Video)

Director

Yukio Ninagawa

Subject

Drama

A video recording, using a single fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 co-production of King Lear. Directed by Yukio Ninagawa with Nigel Hawthorne as Lear and Sanada Hiroyuki as the Fool.

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Hamlet (Audio)

Director

Richard Eyre

Subject

Drama

Live sound recording of Hamlet staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 1980 and directed by Richard Eyre. Jonathan Pryce is Hamlet.

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