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  • Henry IV: Parts 1 & 2: Necessity and Time (1974 Audio)

    Ronald Knowles, University of Reading, and Sarah Wintle, University College London, discuss the play.

  • Henry IV: The Character of Falstaff (1974 Audio)

    Professor A R Humphreys, University of Leicester, and Dr Gareth Lloyd Evans, University of Birmingham, discuss the play.

  • Julius Caesar (1974 Film)

    Series
    Shakespeare Series, The
    Director
    Peter Seabourne

    Extracts from Act II ii (Caesar is flattered by Decius Brutus into going to the forum); Act IV iii (Cassius and Brutus quarrel in the ‘tent scene’ and news comes of Portia’s death).

  • King Lear (1974 Television, Video)

    Director
    Charles Warren
    Producer
    Tony Davenall

    A television production of the play, originally in six separate episodes, with Patrick Magee as Lear.

  • Macbeth: Reflections (1974 Television, Video)

    Television series for schools. A partner series to MACBETH first broadcast in the autumn term 1970. REFLECTIONS considers the five main themes of the play - tyranny, loyalty, ambition, man and woman, and the...

  • Man and Woman (1974 Film)

    Series
    Great Themes of Literature

    Edited from Zeffirelli’s version of The Taming of the Shrew, the film explores the relationship between men and women as portrayed in literature. Orson Welles contrasts Shakespeare’s comic treatment with...

  • Merchant of Venice, The (1974 Television)

    Director
    John Sichel
    Producer
    Cecil Clarke

    Originally staged by Jonathan Miller at the Old Vic in 1970 and then at the National Theatre, London in 1971, the production was subsequently recorded for television. The production is set in Venice in the...

  • Otello (1974 Video)

    Director
    Roger Benamou
    Producer
    Fritz Buttenstedt

    A complete performance of Verdi’s Otello directed for stage by Herbert von Karajan and for video by Roger Benamou. The Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra are conducted by Karajan....

  • Power and Corruption (1974 Video)

    Director
    Orson Welles

    An edited version of Roman Polanski’s Macbeth, narrated by Orson Welles, which follows the dramatic chain of event precipitated by Macbeth’s killing of Duncan. Shakespeare’s treatment of power and...

  • Richard III: An Introduction (1974 Video)

    Director
    Peter Seabourne
    Producer
    John Seabourne

    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...