Acknowledgements
This project could not have been realised without the support of Shakespeare scholars, researchers, archivists and enthusiasts all over the world. The project team would particularly like to express their grateful thanks to the following:
- Dr I Arul Adam for chasing up Tamil versions of Shakespeare on film
- Margaret Bartley, Publisher, The Arden Shakespeare, for providing us with the ‘raw data’ for our research
- Jeff Walden at BBC Written Archives Centre
- John Oliver from the BFI National Archive and David Sharp, Sean Delaney and the friendly staff from the BFI National Library for readily making valuable materials accessible
- Rod Hamilton at the British Library Sound Archive
- Wolfgang Schmidt at the Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv in Berlin
- Christine Cadotte from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Peter Delin at the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin for compiling an indispensable list on ‘Where to search and buy films on Video and DVD worldwide’
- Uschi Rühle and staff at the Deutsche Filminstitut (DIF)
- Georg Vorwerk, Heiner von Rüling and Karl Obermanns at the Deutsche Rundfunkarchiv (DRA) in Frankfurt and Babelsberg
- Roger Elsgood from Art and Adventure for his generous support and commitment to producing radio Shakespeare with a difference
- FIAF, for its address book
- Futerra, for supplying us with stills from SEASONS ALTER
- Elizabeth A. Walsh, Erin C. Blake and all staff at the Folger Shakespeare Library
- Patrick Spottiswoode, Director at Globe Education
- Kevin J. Harty from the La Salle University in Philadelphia
- Peter Heinrich at the University for Television and Film in Munich
- Tony Howard, author of Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and Fiction
- Reiner Josef Klein at the Theatre Studies Media Department of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
- Zoran Sinobad, Rosemary C. Hanes and Karen J. Fishman at the Library of Congress and Museum of Television and Radio (now the Paley Center for Media)
- Antony Daws for holding the key to BBC Schools Transmission pamphlets at the London Institute of Education Information Services
- Ron Magliozzi at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC)
- Iwan Jenkins from The National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
- The friendly staff at the Österreichische Mediathek
- Wolf-D. Fruck, Senior Product Manager, Random House Audio LITERA of the Verlagsgruppe Random House
- Niky Rathbone, at the time still in charge of the Shakespeare Collection at the Birmingham Central Library
- David Howells, Curator of the RSC Collections at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon
- Veronika Schandl for providing us with a meticulously translated list of Shakespeare video recordings held at the Hungarian Theatre archives
- Tina Kornfeld and Holger Wendt for unlocking the archive of the Schauspielhaus Zürich
- All our SHAKESPEAREAV listmembers
- Sylvia Morris and Helen Hargest from the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive in Stratford-upon-Avon
- Kate Welch and staff at The Shakespeare Institute Library, Stratford-upon-Avon
- Kenneth Rothwell and Annabelle Henkin Melzer for their pioneering work on Shakespeare On Screen
- Contributors to Shakespeares After Shakespeare – especially Mike Jensen, Susanne Greenhalgh, Richard Burt, Douglas Lanier, Courtney Lehmann
- Mariangela Tempera, for a list of Shakespeare films that she wasn’t supposed to let us see
- Gordon Terris for all his encouragement and support
- Trista (Ya Hui-Yang) for enlightening us about Shakespeare in Taiwan
