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  1. 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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  2. Thousand Acres, A (1997 Film, Video)

    Director
    Jocelyn Moorhouse
    Producer
    Marc Abraham; Lynn Arost; Steve Golin; Kate Guinzburg; Sigurjon Sighvatsson

    Film adaptation of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Jane Smiley, which is loosely based on King Lear but with a feminist slant. Larry (Robards) decides to give his daughters joint ownership of his...

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  3. Hamlet (1990 Film)

    Director
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Producer
    Dyson Lovell

    Feature film version of the play. A naturalistic and literal reading with few interpretative touches. Gibson’s Hamlet is a man of action and with the text heavily cut (over 80%) he dominates the majority...

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  4. Hamlet (1969 Film, Video)

    Director
    Tony Richardson
    Producer
    Neil Hartley

    Filmed entirely in the Round House, London, where the play had previously been staged. Intense and claustrophic, the film is notable for its extensive use of close-ups, lines delivered in rasping voice-over,...

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  5. Othello (1952 Film)

    Director
    Orson Welles
    Producer
    Orson Welles

    Feature film. Welles’ first European work, shot in fits and starts over four years at various locations in Morocco and Italy, due to lack of finance. This accounts for the inconsistent technical quality,...

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