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  1. Old Actor, The (1912 Film)

    Director
    D.W. Griffith

    Fiction short. A Shakespearean actor loses his part as the manager feels that he is too old. Helping a beggar in the street he is surprised to see how much money the beggar has made. Unable to get new work...

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  2. Amours de la Reine Elisabeth, Les (1912 Film)

    aka: Queen Elizabeth Queen Bess (Her Love Story) Reine Elisabeth, La Elisabeth, Reine d’Angleterre

    Director
    Louis Mercanton; Henri Desfontaines

    Film drama based on the play by Emile Moreau that relates the love story of Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex. The film opens with a performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor (the Falstaff basket scene...

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  3. Nicholas Nickleby (1912 Film)

    Director
    George O. Nicholls

    Shortened adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel. Includes the sequences where Nicholas joins the Crummles’ company and plays Romeo in their production of Romeo and Juliet.

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  4. Romeo and Juliet (1911 Film)

    Director
    Barry O’Neil

    Abbreviated version of the play with Julia M.Taylor as Juliet and George Lessey as Romeo. Ball (op cit) notes ‘The costuming was good, and all in all the film contains considerable visual movement, and...

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  5. Richard III (1911 Film)

    A much shortened record of F.R. Benson’s production filmed at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford in 1911 with Benson as King Richard. The film makes no attempt to be other than what it is, a...

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  6. Bruto (1911 Film)

    aka: Brutus

    Director
    Enrico Guazzoni

    Fiction short based on Julius Caesar which largely follows the main events of the play from the death of Caesar to the death of Brutus. Guazzoni remade the story for Cines in 1914 for the feature length...

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  7. Twelfth Night (1910 Film)

    Director
    Charles Kent

    Abbreviated version of the play directed by Charles Kent with Florence Turner as Viola and Charles Kent as Malvolio.

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  8. Shakespeare Land (1910 Film)

    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,...

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  9. Amleto (1910 Film)

    Director
    Mario Caserini

    Abbreviated version of the play directed by Mario Caserini with Amleto Novelli as Hamlet.

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  10. Re Lear (1910 Film)

    aka: King Lear Roi Lear, Le

    Director
    Gerolamo Lo Savio

    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...

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