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  1. Midsummer (1999 Film)

    Director
    James Kerwin
    Producer
    James Kerwin; P. Dirk Higdon; Steven Hacker

    Short experimental film. An adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set against a psychedelic backdrop of surreal techno clubs and urban alleyways. The film opens with a long unbroken shot, with no...

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  2. Compromise: A Love Story of Arabs and Jews (1997 Video)

    Director
    Anat Even

    Documentary about the first Israeli/Palestinian co-production of Romeo and Juliette in Jerusalem. produced by Eran Baniel and Awad Fouad. The project took several years to complete and allowed the...

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  3. Shakespeare (1994 Video)

    Series
    Time Quest Historical Interviews
    Director
    Wink Grise

    Educational videotape. A teacher and pupil travel back in time to 1609 to interview Shakespeare over lunch at the Mermaid Tavern. They question him about the writing and performance of his plays - including...

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  4. Feuding and Loving in Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (1990 Video)

    Series
    Eminent Scholars/Teachers
    Producer
    Matthew J. Bruccoli; Richard Layman

    George Walton Williams analyses the themes of loving and hating in the play illustrated from various productions of the plays.

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  5. Why and the How of Poisoning in William Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’, The (1990 Video)

    Series
    Eminent Scholars/Teachers
    Producer
    Matthew J. Bruccoli; Richard Layman

    George Walton Williams demonstrates how the imagery of Othello allows the reader/audience to observe the way in which Iago ‘poisons’ Othello’s mind.

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  6. Staging of Shakespeare’s Plays, The (1990 Video)

    Series
    Eminent Scholars/Teachers
    Director
    Rick Import
    Producer
    Matthew J. Bruccoli; Richard Layman

    Educational videotape. George Walton Williams traces the development of theatrical playing areas in England before Shakespeare, demonstrating with a model of the Swan Theatre how certain scenes in...

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  7. Commedia Dell’Arte ‘Hamlet’, A (1964 Film)

    Producer
    Sig Moglen; Nick Havinga

    An abbreviated version of a Commedia dell’Arte Hamlet, with farce and improvised dialogue interpolated. Characters introduced into this version include Arlecchino, Captain and Doctor. Performed by Michael...

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  8. Bertolt Brecht: Practice Pieces (1964 Video)

    Director
    Nick Havinga
    Producer
    Sig Moglen

    Brecht wrote the scenes to train actors in his own method for performing classical drama. The scenes were intended to be strenuously rehearsed, but then omitted when the play was presented. The idea was to...

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  9. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1964 Television)

    Director
    Joan Kemp-Welch

    Television production of the play, virtually uncut, which incorporates a ballet sequence choreographed by Juan Corelli. The romantic setting, and use of gesture and expression, shows the influence of Reinhardt.

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