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  1. Much Ado About Nothing (2004 Television, Video)

    Series
    Broadway Classic Collection
    Director
    A.J. Antoon
    Producer
    Joseph Papp

    A televised adaptation of the New York Shakespeare Festival Production by Joseph Papp, set at the beginning of the 20th century, featuring Teddy Roosevelt roughriders and bicycle-riding women suffragettes....

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  2. King Lear (2002 Television)

    Series
    Theatre in America
    Director
    Edwin Sherin
    Producer
    Joseph Papp

    A televised production of the staging first performed at the 1973 New York Shakespeare Festival. James Earl Jones is Lear. The cast is ethnically diverse - Lear and his daughters are black, Gloucester is...

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  3. Taming of the Shrew, The (1956 Television)

    Series
    Hallmark Hall of Fame
    Director
    George Schaefer
    Producer
    Maurice Evans

    Television adaptation by Michael Hogan and William Nicholls. The design and performances reflect the commedia dell’arte tradition.The stage is virtually bare with clowns carrying on props as required, and...

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  4. First Command Performance of Romeo and Juliet (1954 Television)

    Series
    You Are There
    Director
    Sidney Lumet
    Producer
    James D. Fonda; Charles Russell

    A US drama series re-enacting major historical events and covering them as current news stories. This episode concerns December 26 1597 when Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was selected by Queen Elizabeth I...

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  5. Julius Caesar (1953 Film, Video)

    Director
    Joseph L Mankiewicz
    Producer
    John Houseman

    Mankiewicz’s version of the tragedy that ‘some Americans regard as their own has stood the test of time’ (The Guardian 2019). With an impressive cast, including Louis Calhern as Caesar, Marlon Brando...

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