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  • Shakespeare: The King’s Man (2012 Video)

    Director
    Steven Clarke
    Producer
    Steven Clarke

    American scholar James Shapiro examines the plays Shakespeare wrote during the turbulent reign of Elizabeth’s successor, King James I. One of the new king’s first official acts was to name Shakespeare a...

  • Francesco’s Shakespeare (2006)

    aka: Shakespeare in Italy

    Nowhere fired Shakespeare’s Imagination quite like Italy. But as Francesco Da Mosto argues in this new two part series, Italian cities meant far more to our greatest author than just a sunlit setting....

  • Much Ado About Nothing (2005 Television, Video)

    aka: Shakespeare Re-Told Shakespeare Retold

    Series
    Shakespeare-Told
    Director
    Brian Percival
    Producer
    Diederick Santer

    A modern television interpretation of Shakespeare’s play, with contemporary dialogue, presented as a screwball comedy and set in a provincial newsroom. Beatrice and Benedick discuss and analyse Sonnet 116...

  • Macbeth (2005 Television, Video)

    aka: Shakespeare Re-Told Shakespeare Retold

    Series
    Shakespeare-Told
    Director
    Mark Brozel
    Producer
    Pier Wilkie

    A modern television interpretation of Shakespeare’s play with contemporary dialogue set in the kitchen of a Michelin-starred restaurant. When the owner takes credit for Joe’s dedication, Joe’s...

  • Taming of the Shrew, The (2005 Television, Video)

    aka: Shakespeare Re-Told Shakespeare Retold

    Series
    Shakespeare-Told
    Director
    Dave Richards
    Producer
    Diederick Santer

    A modern television version of Shakespeare’s play with contemporary dialogue. Katherine Minola is a talented, single, and quick-tempered, politician who is put under pressure to marry by her family and her...

  • Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2005 Television, Video)

    aka: Shakespeare Re-Told Shakespeare Retold

    Series
    Shakespeare-Told
    Director
    Ed Fraiman
    Producer
    Pier Wilkie

    A modern television version of Shakespeare’s play with contemporary dialogue. The comedy is transferred to the Dream Park holiday centre where Theo and Polly have come to celebrate their daughter’s...

  • Midsummer’s Nightmare, A (2004 Television)

    Series
    Lexx
    Director
    Paul Donovan (2); Chris Bould
    Producer
    Paul Donovan (2); David Marlow

    Science fiction television series that follows the adventures of a group of mismatched fugitives from the Lexx, a living, insect-shaped aircraft. This episode is loosely based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer...

  • Reduced Shakespeare Company: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2002 Video)

    aka: Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

    Director
    Paul Kafno
    Producer
    Paul Kafno

    A special video performance of the theatrical hit that playfully spoofs Shakespeare. The three actors of the Reduced Shakespeare Company draw on their classical (and clown school) training to squeeze all 37...

  • Educating Rita (1983 Film)

    Director
    Lewis Gilbert
    Producer
    Lewis Gilbert

    Feature film about a hairdresser (Walters) who, against the wishes of her family, enrols on a literature course at the Open University. Her tutor (Caine) is a disillusioned, heavy drinking middle-aged man...

  • Rumpole and the Course of True Love (1979 Television)

    Series
    Rumpole of the Bailey
    Director
    Brian Farnham

    Rumpole defends Ronald Ransom, an English teacher accused of having had sexual relations with Francesca, a 15-year-old student in his class. Although he had written her several letters, which mysteriously...