Richard III: An Introduction

Synopsis: Part of a series of educational films intended to serve as an introduction to each play’s theme or atmosphere. Designed to reproduce the conditions of acting in Elizabethan times such as having the same actors play several roles, thus showing how the plays were originally written for a specific company of actors. Includes extracts from Act I i (Richard’s soliloqy beginning ‘Now is the winter of our discontent...') and Act I ii (Richard wooing the widowed Lady Anne). Made on a reconstructed Elizabethan stage to show how the stage permitted the plays to move swiftly and kept the actors in close contact with their audiences.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 1974
Duration: 14 mins
Availability: Out of distribution (2005).

Director

Producer

Cast

Alison Key	Lady Anne
Paul Chapman	Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard

Production type: Documentary/Educational/News
Plays: Richard III
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: drama in English; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Elizabethan stage

Name: National Education Video Library
Contact: John Lovell
Email: tryfannevl@aol.com
Phone: 01286 676001 or 07768 105467
Fax: 01286 676001
Address: Arfon House
Bontnewydd
Caernarvon
Gwynned
LL54 7UN
Notes: Formerly the National Audio Visual (Aids) Library. No longer holds 16mm material. Retains the negatives and copyright to the EFVA material, but have no viewing copies. Video only. (1/97) Alternative address might be Arfon House, Bontnewydd, Caernarvon, Gwynned LL54 7UN Telephone/Fax 01286 676001

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