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  1. William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama (1999 Television, Video)

    Director
    Rebecca Jones
    Producer
    Rebecca Jones
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 46 min., 2004 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    A biography of Shakespeare. Details the major themes in his life and the development of his career in the London theatre. Includes readings by Germaine Greer and Edward Petherbridge of several sonnets and...

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  2. Prospero’s Books (1991 Film)

    Director
    Peter Greenaway
    Producer
    Kees Kasander
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 121 minutes), £15.99

    Feature film based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Prospero is given 24 books to lessen the pain of his exile on a barren island. Greenaway interprets The Tempest as a mind reviewing its entire contents, and...

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  3. Shakespeare Enigma, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Steve Orme
    Producer
    Steve Orme
    Subject
    Drama

    A debate on the authorship of Shakespeare. Professor Stanley Wells, from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust expounds his view that Shakespeare wrote the plays. Francis Carr propounds the theory that Francis...

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  4. Richard II Live from the Globe (Television)

    Director
    Tim Carroll
    Subject
    Drama

    Live recording of Mark Rylance’s all-male production of Richard II directed for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre by Tim Carroll. Corin Redgrave, Zoe Wanamaker and Michael Wood discuss the performance and the...

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  5. Tempest, The (2005) (Video)

    Director
    Tim Carroll
    Subject
    Drama

    A production of The Tempest, with three actors, directed by Tim Carroll and staged at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

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  6. Henry V at the Globe (Television)

    Director
    Steve Ruggi
    Producer
    Debra Hauer
    Subject
    Drama

    A programme to mark the opening of the newly reconstructed Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Features Act IV of Henry V, with Richard Oliver directing Mark Rylance as Henry. Includes extracts from the...

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  7. Sonnets in the City (Television)

    Director
    Sophie Gardiner; Mark Rylance
    Producer
    Sophie Gardiner; Mark Rylance
    Subject
    Literature

    Five daily readings of Shakespearean sonnets, performed around London Landmarks, as a prelude to a live transmission of HENRY V, Act IV from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on 15 June 1997 at 8pm. 09/06...

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  8. Measure for Measure Live from the Globe (Television)

    Director
    Janet Fraser Cook
    Subject
    Drama

    Television production of the play live from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Directed for stage by John Dove and for television by Janet Fraser Cook. Presented by Andrew Marr and with comment from historian...

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  9. Cymbeline (Video)

    Director
    Mike Alfreds
    Subject
    Drama

    Videorecording of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre production directed for stage by Mike Alfreds. The production uses minimal sets and employed a cast of six (and two on-stage percussionists) with the...

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  10. Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (Video)

    Director
    Jack Shepherd
    Subject
    Drama

    Video recording of the Shakespeare GlobeTheatre’s modern-dress production of the play directed by Jack Shepherd.

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