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  1. Twelfth Night: Shakespeare’s Gay Play (2022 Video)

    Series
    Bard to the Bone

    Recording of a streamed online presentation by Oz Helligman on cross-dressing, queerness and discussions of gender is Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

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  2. Twelfth Night and As You Like It (2012 Television)

    Series
    Shakespeare Uncovered
    Director
    Janice Sutherland
    Producer
    Janice Sutherland

    Documentary. Joely Richardson looks at Shakespeare’s women examining As You Like It and Twelfth Night covering issues such as cross dressing, twins, disguise, the nature of comedy and gender. The...

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  3. Shakespeare Sonette (2009 Television)

    Director
    Robert Wilson (3)

    A television version of Robert Wilson’s 2009 stagework in which he has selects 24 of Shakespeare’s sonnets to perform and illustrate. In ‘Sonette’ the women play men and men play women. Inge...

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  4. Li Er Zai Ci (2001 Multimedia, Video)

    aka: Lear is Here

    Director
    Wu Hsing-Kuo

    A version of King Lear using the theatrical formalism of Beijing opera as a medium in which to read Shakespeare’s play. The director translates Lear into a three-act, one-actor piece of performance art,...

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  5. Merchant/Venice (1999 Video)

    aka: Merchant of Venice, The

    Director
    Noel Salzman

    Independent, experimental video. A re-working of The Merchant of Venice, that includes text from Kathy Acker’s reinterpretation of the play. Makes extensive use of live and pre-recorded video, and employs...

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  6. And All That Jazz (1999 Radio)

    Series
    Her Infinite Variety

    Radio drama. Five modern plays for Shakespeare’s women written by Juliet Ace. 4: Count Orso offers a modern Viola a spectacular twelfth night, with a wardrobe beyond most cross-dressers’ dreams.

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  7. Shakespeare in Love (1998 Film, Video)

    Director
    John Madden
    Producer
    David Parfitt; Harvey Weinstein; Marc Norman; Edward Zwick; Donna Gigliotti

    Feature film. A comic drama in which William Shakespeare is portrayed as a young writer who is struggling financially and, envious of a rival, meets an aspiring actress who dresses as a boy to work in...

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  8. Girls Who Are Boys (1997 Television)

    Series
    Conjuring Shakespeare
    Producer
    Tony Coe

    Cross-dressing and ambiguous sexuality in Shakespeare’s plays is discussed by actresses Fiona Shaw and Juliet Stevenson and director Deborah Warner. Follows the progress of a theatre workshop on the...

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