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  1. Lenny Henry - Finding Shakespeare (2012 Television)

    Series
    Perspectives
    Director
    Elizabeth Dobson

    Documentary. Lenny Henry tells how a comedian had a burning ambition to act in Shakespeare’s plays. There are brief extracts (rehearsal and performance) of Henry in Othello (Rutter’s 2009 production) and...

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  2. Mark Rylance (2012 Television)

    Series
    Mark Lawson Talks to ...
    Director
    Anya Saunders
    Producer
    Anya Saunders

    Television interview with actor and first artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Mark Rylance, about his life and career, especially his relationship with Shakespeare and his controversial...

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  3. Uncertainties (2012 Television)

    Series
    King and the Playwright: A Jacobean History, The
    Director
    Steven Clarke
    Producer
    Steven Clarke

    Three-part documentary series. James Shapiro examines the plays Shakespeare wrote at the beginning of James I’s reign, including King Lear, Measure for Measure, and Timon of Athens. There are scenes from...

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  4. Equivocation (2012 Television)

    Series
    King and the Playwright: A Jacobean History, The
    Director
    Steven Clarke
    Producer
    Steven Clarke

    Three-part documentary series. In episode 2 James Shapiro analyses Shakespeare’s work in the years following the 1605 gunpowder plot including Macbeth and Coriolanus - two plays written at a time of great...

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  5. Legacy (2012 Television)

    Series
    King and the Playwright: A Jacobean History, The
    Director
    Steven Clarke
    Producer
    Steven Clarke

    Three-part documentary series. In the final episode James Shapiro analyses The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest, plays which are often seen as swansongs. Professor Shapiro offers a different Shakespeare - a...

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  6. Macbeth, The Movie Star...and Me (2012 Television)

    Director
    Neil Leighton
    Producer
    Neil Leighton

    Documentary. Actor David Harewood has five days to turn a group of teenagers from his old school, Washwood Heath Technology College, Birmingham into Shakespearean performers capable of appearing on the stage...

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  7. This England (2012 Television)

    Series
    Simon Schama’s Shakespeare
    Director
    Ashley Gething
    Producer
    Charlotte Sacher

    Two-part documentary in which Simon Schama argues that to understand Shakespeare we must understand how he was of his time. This episode concentrates on Henry IV and Henry VI and especially the character of...

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  8. Julius Caesar (2012 Television)

    Director
    Gregory Doran
    Producer
    John Wyver

    The Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2012 production of Julius Caesar directed for television by Gregory Doran. An all-black British cast includes Ray Fearon as Mark Antony and Joseph Paterson as Brutus. The...

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  9. Twelfth Night and As You Like It (2012 Television)

    Series
    Shakespeare Uncovered
    Director
    Janice Sutherland
    Producer
    Janice Sutherland

    Documentary. Joely Richardson looks at Shakespeare’s women examining As You Like It and Twelfth Night covering issues such as cross dressing, twins, disguise, the nature of comedy and gender. The...

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  10. Hollow Crowns (2012 Television)

    Series
    Simon Schama’s Shakespeare
    Director
    Ashley Gething
    Producer
    Charlotte Sacher

    Documentary. Simon Schama concludes his two-part documentary looking at Shakespeare’s attitudes towards kingship. The programmes focuses on Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Henry V and Richard II. Includes...

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