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  1. Her Majesty Desires, Master Shakespeare ...! (1943 Radio)

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    Radio play arranged and produced by Peter Creswell. Scenes from Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor are introduced by a prologue involving Shakespeare (Anthony Shaw), Queen Elizabeth (Galdys Young)...

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  2. Falstaff in Wien (1940 Film)

    aka: Falstaff in Vienna

    Director
    Leopold Hainisch

    A musical set in old Vienna about the composer Otto Nicolai, who wrote Die Lustige Weiber von Windsor, based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. The film incorporates some of Nicolai’s music...

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  3. Melody and Romance (1937 Film)

    Director
    Maurice Elvey
    Producer
    Herbert Smith

    Musical comedy. A young man (Green) aspires to a career as a radio star. Along the way, the falls in love with a scientist’s daughter (Lockwood). He then adds several talented friends to his act and...

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  4. Robert Atkins’s Bankside Players Presenting the Letter Scene from ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ (1937 Television)

    Series
    Scenes from Shakespeare
    Director
    Stephen Thomas
    Producer
    Stephen Thomas

    Televised broadcast of a scene based on Act II, scene i of the play. The ‘letter scene’ is performed by Robert Atkins’ Bankside Players.

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  5. Falstaff (1937 Radio)

    Following a five-minute introduction, the third Act of Verdi’s comic opera (the second of the pranks played upon Falstaff), is broadcast live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The Royal Opera...

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  6. Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1937 Radio)

    Director
    Ernst Schoen

    Radio broadcast of scenes from Otto Nicolai’s opera. The BBC Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by George Knepler, with Ernst Schoen as director. The opera is performed in English, translation by D....

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  7. Much Ado About Nothing (1937 Radio)

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    Abridged version of the play arranged and produced for radio by Peter Creswell. With Fay Compton as Beatrice and Godfrey Tearle as Benedick.

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  8. Lustigen Weiber, Die (1936 Film)

    aka: Merry Wives of Windsor, The

    Director
    Carl Hoffmann

    Feature film. An operatic version of The Merry Wives of Windsor. The lyrics are by Willy Dehmel.

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  9. Much Ado About Nothing (1936 Radio)

    Director
    B. Iden Payne

    Radio adaptation of the B. Iden Payne’s Stratford-upon-Avon Festival Company’s production of Shakespeare’s comedy by Howard Rose. With Barbara Couper as Beatrice and James Dale as Benedick. The...

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  10. Sir Thomas More: A Tribute to the Memory of a Brave Man (1935 Radio)

    Producer
    Laurence Gilliam

    Radio adaptation written by D. G. Brodson and produced by Laurence Gilliam. The play comprises three sequences ('The Trial’, ‘The Dream’, ‘The End’) and an epilogue. The cast includes Lewis Casson...

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