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  1. Muse of Fire: A Shakespearean Road Movie (2013 Film)

    Director
    Dan Poole; Giles Terera
    Producer
    Giles Terera; Dan Poole

    Independent and self-funded documentary. Actors/directors Dan Poole and Giles Terera travel the world asking actors, directors, students and the public about their experiences of Shakespeare.

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  2. Henry V (2012 Television)

    Series
    Hollow Crown, The
    Director
    Thea Sharrock
    Producer
    Rupert Ryle-Hodges

    Television version of the play directed by Thea Sharrock with Tom Hiddleston in the title role.

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  3. Paul Scofield (2008 Television)

    Series
    Arena
    Director
    David Thompson
    Producer
    Rosemary Tratt

    Television documentary celebrating the work of Paul Scofield. Includes footage of Scofield on tour in Romania with the RSC production of King Lear directed by Peter Brook in 1964. Shots of the cast getting...

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  4. V for Vendetta (2006 Film)

    Director
    James McTeigue
    Producer
    Joel Silver; Grant Hill; Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski

    Feature film. Set in London in 2020 when Britain has become a Fascist state, a freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman)...

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  5. Laurence Olivier Presents King Lear (2002 Television)

    Director
    Michael Elliott
    Producer
    David Plowright

    Television production of the play, set in the year 800 and staged entirely in Granada’s Manchester studio, and one of the few not based on a prior stage production. With music specially composed by Gordon...

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  6. Othello (1991 Television)

    Series
    Eyewitness News

    News item on the production of Othello staged at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1991. Includes short interviews with director Joe Dowling and actors Raul Julia (Othello). Kathryn Meisle (Desdemona),...

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  7. Romeo-Juliet (1990 Film)

    Director
    Armando Acosta
    Producer
    Armando Acosta; Paul Celis; Lanny Mickelson; Andree Castagne

    Film version of Romeo and Juliet casting the feral cats of Venice, New York and Ghent as actors with voices dubbed by established actors of the British theatre. Filmed as a concert, with music from Prokofiev...

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  8. Richard II (1986 Radio)

    Director
    Richard Wortley
    Producer
    Richard Wortley

    Radio adaptation of the play produced and directed by Richard Wortley. With John Hurt in the title role and David Suchet as Bolingbroke. Music composed by Ilona Sekacz.

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  9. Farewell Thou Art Too Dear for My Possession (1985 Television, Video)

    Series
    Sonnets of Shakespeare
    Producer
    Kevin Billington

    Sonnet 87 read in costume by John Hurt, followed by a discussion of the Sonnet by Dr Nicholas Humphrey. Dr Humphries argues that although the sonnet looks a love poem, it more accurately describes the deep...

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  10. Two Loves I Have of Comfort and Despair (1985 Audio, Video)

    Series
    Sonnets of Shakespeare

    Sonnet 144 read in costume by John Hurt, followed by a discussion of the sonnet by Professor Leslie Fiedler who sees the poem as the key to understanding the whole cycle. The sonnet is then performed again...

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