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  1. Taming of the Shrew, The (1929 Film)

    Director
    Sam Taylor

    Feature film version of the play and the first sound film to attempt a full version of a Shakespeare play. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as Kate and Petruchio.

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  2. Bromo and Juliet (1926 Film)

    Director
    Leo McCarey
    Producer
    Hal Roach

    Slapstick comedy short. When the Chase family are trying to come up with ideas for a charity variety show for missionaries they decide to stage scenes from Romeo and Juliet with Madge as Juliet and Charley...

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  3. Tragedia Alla Corte di Sicilia, Una (1914 Film)

    aka: Winter’s Tale, The Lost Princess, The Novella d’Inverno: Una Novella di Shakespeare

    Director
    Baldassare Negroni

    Abbreviated version of The Winter’s Tale. William Shakespeare reads the play to some friends. The story is largely the plot of the play but Autolycus is omitted and there is no pursuit of a bear. McKernan...

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  4. Life and Death of King Richard III (1912 Film)

    aka: Richard Iii Mr Frederick Warde in Shakespeare’s Masterpiece ‘The Life and Death of King Richard’.

    Director
    James Keane
    Producer
    M.B. Dudley

    Feature film version of Richard III produced as a vehicle for the 19th-century stage tragedian Frederick Warde.

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  5. 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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  6. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1909 Film)

    Director
    J. Stuart Blackton; Charles Kent

    Abbreviated version of the play closely following the original with the exception of a new character, Penelope. It is she who quarrels with Titania and tells Puck to bewitch Titania.

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  7. King Lear (1909 Film)

    Director
    William V. Ranous
    Producer
    J. Stuart Blackton

    Abbreviated version of the play but yet still straining to incorporate the Edgar subplot, the rejection of Cordelia, Lear’s rejection of Goneril and Regan, the blinding of Gloucester (off stage), the...

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  8. Tempest, The (1908 Film)

    Director
    Percy Stow

    Abbreviated version of the play directed by Percy Stow. The cast is not known.

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  9. Sonnets (Audio)

    Director
    Howard Sackler

    Shakespeare’s sonnets read by John Gielgud.

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  10. King John (Video)

    Series
    RSC Live from Stratford Upon Avon
    Director
    Eleanor Rhode

    Recording of the 2019 stage production by Eleanor Rhode starring Rosie Sheehy in the title role and set in the 1960s.

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