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  1. Othello: A South African Tale (2005 Film)

    Director
    Eubulus Timothy
    Producer
    Jacintha Timothy

    Feature film adaptation set in modern-day South Africa. In this version both Othello and Iago are black and Emilia is white.

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  2. 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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  3. Much Ado About Nothing (1984 Television)

    aka: The Shakespeare Plays

    Series
    BBC Television Shakespeare
    Director
    Stuart Burge
    Producer
    Shaun Sutton

    Television production of the play directed by Stuart Burge, with Robert Lindsay as Benedick) and Cherie Lunghi as Beatrice.

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  4. Englishman Abroad, An (1983 Television)

    Director
    John Schlesinger
    Producer
    Innes Lloyd

    Made-for-television film. Acclaimed recreation of the meeting between actress Coral Browne and British spy and defector Guy Burgess, in Moscow in 1958. The initial meeting took place in a theatre, where...

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  5. Troilus and Cressida (1981 Television)

    aka: The Shakespeare Plays

    Series
    BBC Television Shakespeare
    Director
    Jonathan Miller
    Producer
    Jonathan Miller

    Television production with Anton Lesser as Troilus and Suzanne Burden as Cressida. Blind artist Jack Birkett aka The Incredible Orlando (who also played Caliban in Derek Jarman THE TEMPEST) as Thersites.

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  6. Romeo and Juliet (1978 Television)

    aka: The Shakespeare Plays

    Series
    BBC Television Shakespeare
    Director
    Alvin Rakoff
    Producer
    Cedric Messina

    Television production starring Patrick Ryecart as Romeo and Rebecca Saire as Juliet; with Alan Rickman as Tybalt.

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  7. Twelfth Night: An Introduction (1970 Video)

    Series
    New Shakespeare
    Director
    Peter Seabourne
    Producer
    John Seabourne

    Part of a series of educational films intended to serve as an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere. Designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same...

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  8. 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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  9. Conflict: Henry V (1967 Television)

    aka: Henry V

    Series
    For Schools
    Director
    George More O’Ferrall
    Producer
    Donald Carter

    Schools television programme. A discussion of Henry V with scenes enacted. Scenes selected and introduction written by Ivor Brown and presented by John Gielgud.

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