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Ellen Terry reciting Portia’s speech from Act IV i beginning ‘The quality of mercy is not strain’d...' The speech is included in GREAT HISTORICAL SHAKESPEARE RECORDINGS issued by Naxos and...
Abbreviated version of the play directed by Charles Kent with Florence Turner as Viola and Charles Kent as Malvolio.
Fiction film. A version of The Winter’s Tale with Martin Faust as Leontes and Anna Rosemond as Hermione.
Fiction short. `...as fine an example of the producer’s skill as we have seen. The management of the riotous crowds, the costly splendour of the costumes, and the perfectly artistic spirit in which the...
Fiction short. A version of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Ball (op cit) notes that Fenton, Shallow, Slender, Sir Hugh Evans, Doctor Caius and Mistress Quickly are omitted.
Travelogue. Street scenes in Leamington Spa, Kenilworth Castle, Guys Cliff Mill, Warwick, Warwick Castle and Stratford-upon Avon. Shots of Anne Hathaway’s cottage, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre,...
Fiction film. The first filmed version of Hamlet to be produced in England. For a detailed account of the complicated provenance of this film see Ball, especially pp.318-20.
Abbreviated version of the play directed by Mario Caserini with Amleto Novelli as Hamlet.
Shortened version of the play which depicts most of the main events but omits the Edgar subplot. Ball (op cit) comments ‘Without subtitles this film could not be understood at all...one sees only tirades...
A shortened version of the play which omits the casket scene and the business concerning Portia’s ring. Some scenes were filmed in Venice.
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