William Shakespeare: A Poet for All Time

Alternative title

Poet for All Time

Synopsis

Alan Howard presents some of Shakespeare’s best known passages. Contents: As you like it ( ‘All the world’s a stage’); Sonnet 30 (`When to the sessions of sweet silent thought’); Sonnet 18 (`Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?); Cymbeline (`Hark, hark! the lark’); Henry V (.`O, for a Muse of fire’, St. Crispin’s Day speech); Romeo and Juliet (`Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day’, Queen Mab speech);
Julius Caesar (`What mean you, Caesar? Think you to walk forth?); Macbeth (`To-morrow, and
to-morrow, and to-morrow’); Cymbeline (`Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun’); Richard II (`Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs’); Love’s Labour’s Lost (`Now, at the latest minute of the hour’) and Sonnet 166 (`Let me not to the marriage of true minds’).

Series

Master Poets Collection

Language

English

Country

United States

Medium

Video

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Year of release

1998

Duration

30 mins

Credits

Director

Mike Gibbon

Producer

Marshall Jamison

Cinematographer

George Gardiner

Cast

Alan Howard

Additional Details

Production type

Documentary/Educational/News

Plays

Henry VI part 2

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Stratford-upon-Avon

Notes

General

Filmed on location in Stratford-upon-Avon.

History

Originally produced in 1976 for the US television series Anyone for Tennyson.

Reviews

Reviewed in Library Journal 123, no.6 (1998), p140.

Production Company

Name

Monterey Movie Company

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