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  1. Maledetto, Il (2022 Film)

    Director
    Giulio Base
    Producer
    Manuela Cacciamani

    Italian crime film based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

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  2. La Tempesta - Shakespeare in Quarantena (2020 Video)

    aka: The Tempest - Shakespeare in Quarantine

    Director
    Mark Di Giuseppe; Emanuela Ambrosino

    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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  3. Was Shakespeare English? (2016 Film)

    Director
    Alicia Maksimova

    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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  4. Shakespeare’s France and Italy (2015 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Richard Paul

    Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. What did Shakespeare — and his audiences—really know about distant places and people? In this episode Rebecca Sheir poses that question about France and...

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  5. Shakespeare in Italy (2012 Television, Video)

    Series
    Shakespeare in Italy
    Director
    Andrea Carnevali
    Producer
    Andrea Carnevali

    Italian architect, author, historian and filmmaker, Francesco da Mosto presents this two-part documentary about the use of Italy as a backdrop for many of the works by William Shakespeare. Interviewees...

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  6. Francesco’s Shakespeare (2006)

    aka: Shakespeare in Italy

    Nowhere fired Shakespeare’s Imagination quite like Italy. But as Francesco Da Mosto argues in this new two part series, Italian cities meant far more to our greatest author than just a sunlit setting....

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  7. Star-Crossed Love (1985 Film, Television, Video)

    Series
    World of William Shakespeare, The
    Director
    Bob Walsh
    Producer
    Bob Walsh

    One of a series of seven films produced by the National Geographic Society in association with the television station WQED, Pittsburgh. Discusses the influence of Italy on Elizabethan writers. Scenes from...

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  8. Danger Within (1959 Film)

    aka: Breakout

    Director
    Don Chaffey
    Producer
    Colin Lesslie

    Feature film adapted from Michael Gilbett’s 1952 novel ‘Death in Captivity’, based on his experiences as a POW in Italy during the Second World War. In the book the play being produced is Rudolf...

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  9. 'Great Desire I Had’: Shakespeare and Italy, The (1952)

    Producer
    Douglas Cleverdon

    Radio play written by Henry Reed and produced for broadcasting by Douglas Cleverdon. Set in Italy in 1593, this dramatic speculation sends William Shakespeare (Marius Goring) to Ferrara, Verona, Padua,...

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