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Set of colour slides of Shakespeare-related scenes in and around Stratford-upon-Avon, including Shakespeare’s birthplace, Hall’s Croft, Mary Arden’s house and Anne Hathaway’s cottage. Also...
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- Maurizo Scaparro
A performance of Julius Caesar in Italian by Il Teatro Populare di Roma.
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- Shakespeare Abridged
The play presented in a simplified form. Key passages in the language of Shakespeare are linked by a narrative in modern English.
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The play adapted by Gareth Lloyd Evans, with various readers.
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The play adapted by Gareth Lloyd Evans, with various readers.
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The play adapted by Gareth Lloyd Evans, with various readers.
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Designed to arouse interest in the play by dealing with the basic elements: character study, imagery and structure.
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- Howard Sackler
Shakespeare’s sonnets read by John Gielgud.
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Educational pack. A 90-minute videotape designed to form a teaching pack for AS and A2-level students with the book, Studying Othello, available separately. The video, with fully integrated activities,...
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- Wayne and Shuster Show, The
The Canadian comedy duo Frank Wayne and Johnny Shuster parody a number of Shakespeare plays including Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Richard III in the form of a baseball game. First performed on...
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A shortened version of Canadian comedy duo Wayne and Shuster’s skit on Julius Caesar first broadcast on radio in 1955 and re-worked and first performed on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. Wayne plays Roman...
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An extract from a speech made by President John F. Kennedy at a Democrat Party banquet in 1960. Kennedy expounds his belief that the current Republican administration promises action but only if it is not...
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Matthew MacFedzean’s one-actor futuristic adaptation of Richard II drew immediate acclaim with its debut performance at the 2001 Summerworks Festival in Toronto. MacFedzean believes that Richard represents...
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Danespotting opened as a fringe stage production at the Montreal Festival 1997. In an interview MacFadzean explained ‘It’s a sort of Hamlet meets TRAINSPOTTING, remaining true to Shakespeare but with a...
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- Donald McWhinnie
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- Cedric Messina
A television production of the play that never made it to the screen. It was directed by Donald McWhinnie in 1978 with the intention of being shown as part of the first series of the BBC Television...
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- Robert Wilson (3)
A DVD of Robert Wilson’s video work THE DEATH OF KING LEAR. The production incorporates William Carlos Williams’ poem ‘The Last Words of my English Grandmother’, and John Gielgud reciting from King...
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- Feltham Kerry
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- Charles Bonnycastle
Documentary. In six weeks, two dozen student actors from Palisades High School in Los Angeles take four Shakespeare plays (King Lear, Richard II, The Winter’s Tale, and The Merry Wives of Windsor) and cut...
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- New Zoo Revue, The
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- Tim Belcher; Gordon W. Wiles
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- Barbara Atlas
US children’s television series. A musical comedy format show aiming to convey concepts of co-operation and guidance for living in contemporary society. Each episode dealt with a topic such as drugs,...
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News compilation (mainly from German television sources recorded 1995-1996) on the Darmstadt death mask of Shakespeare.
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Compilation of two performances recorded at Leningrad State Conservatory Rimsky-Korsakov in 1990 and performed by Nikita Dolgushin and students of the Conservatory. Cassette 1 (c62min): King Lear. A...
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Ten clips selected from the CBC Archive (radio and television) on the life and work of Robert Lepage. Available online, they include an item on Lepage being invited to direct A Midsummer Night’s Dream at...
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A selection of audio clips performed by Canadian Air Farce and presented on the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare website (CASP). They offer comedic representations of Shakespeare in relation to Canadian...
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Excerpts from the BJU Classic Players production of Julius Caesar with comments and character analysis by Shakespearean authorities and the leading actors in the play.
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- Justin Clow
A video recording of a stage production performed by Spectral Theatre, Vancouver. Directed by Justin Clow with Elias Toufexis as Hamlet.
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- Andrew Allan
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- Andrew Allan
CBC radio broadcast. Directed and adapted by Andrew Allan with Barbara Kelly as Titania and John Draine as Oberon. Barbara Kelly’s husband, Bernard Braden, plays Puck.
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A site which employs PieSpy, software designed to allow users to infer and visualise social networks on Internet Relay Chat (IRC). It works by feeding PieSpy with the full texts of all Shakespeare plays,...
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- Peter Novak
A production of The Tempest for the deaf (I ii l309-376). No futher information found (12/2006).
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- Howard Sackler
A recording of The Comedy of Errors by the Shakespeare Recording Society directed by Howard Sackler. Bernard Bresslaw and Harry H. Corbett are Dromio of Ephesus and Syracuse respectively.
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aka: Time Venice
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- Yitzchak Herbst
Documentary. Avner Hezkiyahu rehearses his portrayal of Shylock against a background of stills illustrating Renaissance life and the Jewish community in Venice.
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- Sheets McGrew
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- Robert McBride
Television documentary on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival following a production from casting to final performance. Narrated by Angus Bowman.
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Geoff Hemstedt, lecturer at the University of Sussex, discusses with two English teachers the difficulties of teaching Hamlet to ‘A’ level students. The discussion centres on the length, the language,...
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- Tim Roane
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- Tim Roane
A documentary record of the process of physical theatre training as employed by Brisbane-based theatre company, Zen Zen Zo. The video is shot in cinema verite style and features retrospective interviews with...
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US television advertisement for ‘post toasties’ . ‘The Thinker’ [the Rodin sculture], Shakespeare, and Napoleon all break stereotypical poses and reveal Toasties as "the serious breakfast food".
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The Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare website has streamed three brief video clips related to the work of Canadian director, Rod Carley. 1. Rod Carley Directing Shakespeare. 2. ‘The Othello Project’...
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A series of television, radio and cinema advertisements for Benson and Hedges Hamlet cigars. The campaign was created in 1960 by the Collett Dickenson Pearce agency and launched in the UK in 1964 running...
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An MP3 CD compilation of 50 recordings related to Shakespeare on radio which are listed in the Old Time Radio catalogue. Includes material from John Barrymore and Orson Welles plus episodes of dramas and...
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- George Froscher
Recording of George Froscher’s 1988 production of Macbeth for the Freies Theater, Munich. No further information known (9/2007).
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aka: Sonnets
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- Wolfgang Engel
A dramatic interpretation of the Sonnets by Wolfgang Engel. An actor, an actress, a dancer and two musicians enact some 40 sonnets. No attempt is made to impose a biographical meaning on them.
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- Alfred Preisser
The Folger Theatre and The Classical Theatre of Harlem’s 2006 co-production of King Lear directed for stage by Alfred Preisser and videotaped for WAPAVA by George Karseboom. André de Shields is Lear. The...
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aka: Hamlet (First Quarto)
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- Evald Schorm
A video recording of Evald Schorm’s absurdist production of Hamlet for the Balustrade Theatre. Oldrich Vlach in the title role.
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An advertisement for Heinz Tomato Ketchup. An actor playing Hamlet in a modernised version of Elizabethan dress holds Yorick’s skull and delivers the ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy in a portentous and...
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Advertisement for Heinz Tomato Ketchup. A curtain with an image of the sauce label rises on the Heinz Theatre Company. A bottle of ketchup is adorned with a blond curly wig and a pink hat with a feather....
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- Jan Nebesky
A video recording of Jan Nebesky’s production of Hamlet first staged in 1994. In this production Hamlet disguises himself in female dress.
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- Robert Sturua
Video recording of Robert Sturua’s Richard III first staged at the Edinburgh Festival in 1979 with Ramaz Chkhikvadze as Richard. The Arts Institute recording was made from a production which premiered 10...
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- Janos Edelenyi
A version, of Richard II directed for Hungarian Television by Janos Edelenyi with Tamás Jordán as King Richard. The Internet Movie Database (accessed 4/2008) dates the production as 1976 and the Trivia...
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Thurston Dart talks to Peter Orr about composing music for Shakespearean drama. Recorded at the British Council, London. Date unknown but likely to have been recorded in the 1960s.
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- Carmella Cardina
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- Carmella Cardina
Independent feature film re-working The Tempest. ‘Prospero is homeless and plotting revenge against his thieving brother Antonio. Antonio’s conniving has made him a billionaire several times over and...
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- Calling Scotland Yard
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- Paul Dickson
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- Edward J. Danziger; Harry Lee Danziger
Police detective-crime anthology series. Because of his luxurious fur coat, a hammy actor becomes involved with crooks. His coat resembles the one that a gang’s fence wears, and he is continually finding...
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aka: As You Like It
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- Gábor Székely
Hungarian television version of the production of As You Like It staged by Gábor Székely in 1983 for Katona József Szinház. Dorottya Udvaros is Rosalind.
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aka: Timon of Athens
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- Gábor Székely
Hungarian television version of Timon of Athens based on Gábor Székely’s 1976 stage production with Gyula Piróth in the title role.
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