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  1. Richard III [2-Dvd Special Edition] (2013 Film)

    Series
    Criterion Collection

    Feature film version of the play. ‘Building on Olivier’s extraordinary stage creation, the film asks less what the cinema can do for the theatre (as with HENRY V and HAMLET) than what the theatre can...

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  2. Timon of Athens (1975 Radio)

    Series
    World Drama
    Producer
    Raymond Raikes

    Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s unfinished play, produced and arranged for stereo by Raymond Raikes. With Stephen Murray in the title role. The music is composed and conducted by Christopher Whelen and...

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  3. Honourable Murder, An (1959 Film)

    Director
    Godfrey Grayson
    Producer
    Edward J. Danziger; Harry Lee Danziger

    British B-feature. Julius Caesar enacted in a big business setting. Julian Caesar, chairman of Empire Petroleum, trys to effect a merger, but Cassius, a jealous director plots to overthrow him. A clause in...

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  4. Richard III (1955 Film)

    Director
    Laurence Olivier
    Producer
    Laurence Olivier

    What makes this ‘gloriously watchable, now as then, is Oliver’s effortlessly virtuosic performance as Richard: imperious, ironic, bruttish, sometimes hysterical and never less than smirkingly...

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  5. Romeo and Juliet (1954 Film)

    Director
    Renato Castellani
    Producer
    Sandro Ghenzi; Joseph Janni

    Feature film adaptation of the play. An attempt to unite Shakespeare with the Italian neo-realist school of film-making, with attractive location photography, and naturalistic crowd scenes. The text is...

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  6. From the London Theatre: Caesar and Cleopatra (1951 Radio)

    aka: Caesar and Cleopatra

    Series
    From the London Theatre
    Director
    Michael Benthall
    Producer
    Ayton Whitaker

    Radio programme. Extracts from plays in current production at London’s theatres; introduced by Christopher Hassall. In this episode Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in scenes from Shaw’s Caesar and...

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  7. Hamlet (1948 Film, Video)

    Director
    Laurence Olivier
    Producer
    Laurence Olivier

    Oscar-winning feature film adaptation of the play directed by and starring Laurence Olivier.

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  8. King Lear (1938 Radio)

    Producer
    Peter Creswell

    Shakespeare’s play (without the subplot but with an extra story teller) arranged as a sequence for broadcasting and produced by Peter Creswell. With Godfrey Tearle in the title role.

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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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