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  1. Was Shakespeare English? (2016 Film)

    Director
    Alicia Maksimova
    Subject
    Shakespeare

    Documentary by Alicia Maksimova that explores the theory that Shakespeare was in fact the linguist John Florio, the son of Italian emigree Michelangelo Florio. She travels from Stratford-upon-Avon to...

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  2. Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments and Modernism (2016)

    Subject
    Architecture

    Jonathan Meades investigates the architecture of Mussolini’s Italy. He finds a dictator caught between the forces of modernism and a revivalism that harked back to ancient Rome.

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  3. Fascism (1980)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £60.00

    Describes the intellectual, political and economic origins of fascism and the courses of fascism in power in Europe between 1918 and 1945. It concentrates particularly on Italy and Germany in the context of...

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  4. La Tempesta - Shakespeare in Quarantena (Video)

    aka: The Tempest - Shakespeare in Quarantine

    Director
    Mark Di Giuseppe; Emanuela Ambrosino
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare

    Imaginative Italian adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which is turned into an allegory for the Covid-19 lockdown. It is performed by 22 street performers, mostly from Naples, in their own...

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