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  1. Front Row [08/04/2008] (2008 Radio)

    Series
    Front Row

    Radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson. Includes a 7-minute report on a strange gap in the BBC Television Shakespeare series: the 1978 production of Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Donald...

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  2. Hobart Shakespeareans, The (2006 Television, Video)

    Director
    Mel Stuart
    Producer
    Mel Stuart

    Television documentary set in an inner-city school in Los Angeles, California. Rafe Esquith teaches fifth-graders (10-year-olds) the standard elementary school subjects plus an added Shakespeare course at...

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  3. Why Shakespeare? (2005 Film)

    Director
    Lawrence Bridges
    Producer
    Jan Wieringa

    Documentary incorporating testaments from, and interviews with, actors Christina Applegate, Tom Hanks, Bill Puttnam, William Shatner, Martin Sheen, Michael York and others. The actors and young people...

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  4. This Wooden o (1984 Television)

    Producer
    Bernard Clark

    Television documentary. Derek Jacobi presents the programme which looks at the scheme to build a replica of the Globe Theatre on Bankside. Follows the early stages of the project and the activities of its...

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  5. Romeo and Juliet (1968 Film, Video)

    Director
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Producer
    John Brabourne; Anthony Havelock-Allan

    A feature film adaptation, much cut, and aimed at a mainstream, young audience. Beautifully photographed and costumed, the film was a huge box office success and a forerunner of the ‘teen movie’.

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  6. Taming of the Shrew, The (1967 Film, Video)

    Director
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Producer
    Franco Zeffirelli; Richard Burton; Elizabeth Taylor

    Feature film version of the play. A bawdy and boisterous production, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, which reduces the play to the Katharina/Petruccio romance

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  7. Much Ado About Nothing (1966 Audio)

    Director
    Franco Zeffirelli

    Live audio recording of a performance of Much Ado About Nothing directed for the National Theatre in 1965 by Franco Zeffirelli. Robert Stephens is Benedick and Maggie Smith, Beatrice. Ian McKellen plays...

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  8. Richard III (1960 Audio)

    Director
    Howard Sackler

    Complete performance with Robert Stephens as Richard, Peggy Ashcroft as Queen Margaret, and Glenda Jackson as Lady Anne.

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  9. Much Ado About Nothing (Television)

    Director
    Donald McWhinnie
    Producer
    Cedric Messina

    A television production of the play that never made it to the screen. It was directed by Donald McWhinnie in 1978 with the intention of being shown as part of the first series of the BBC Television...

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