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Hamlet at Elsinore (1964 Television)
- Director
- Philip Saville
- Producer
- Peter Luke
1964 television broadcast of the English/Danish co-production of the play which was filmed at Kronsberg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark. Christopher Plummer is Hamlet with a supporting cast that includes Michael...
Commedia Dell’Arte ‘Hamlet’, A (1964 Film)
- Producer
- Sig Moglen; Nick Havinga
An abbreviated version of a Commedia dell’Arte Hamlet, with farce and improvised dialogue interpolated. Characters introduced into this version include Arlecchino, Captain and Doctor. Performed by Michael...
Falstaff, By Verdi and Shakespeare (1964 Film)
A short film about the character of Sir John Falstaff with performances of scenes from Verdi’s Falstaff with Geraint Evans and Regina Resnik, in the roles of Falstaff and Mistress Quickly, at the New York...
Shakespeare Preserv’d (1964 Radio)
Radio broadcast. Geoffrey Jaggard, a descendant of William Jaggard who first published the folio editions of Shakespeare’s plays, talks about how his ancestor went about this complex piece of printing and...
Romeo and Juliet (1963 Audio)
- Series
- Living Shakespeare
- Director
- John Hale
Spoken word recording, condensed, of Romeo and Juliet directed by John Hale with Keith Michell and Virginia McKenna in the title roles and Flora Robson as the Nurse.
All’s Well That Ends Well (1963 Audio)
- Series
- Living Shakespeare
Abridged sound recording of the play with Edith Evans as the Countess and Vanessa Redgrave as Helena.
Ophelia (1962 Film)
- Director
- Claude Chabrol
Feature film. Yvan Lesurf, son of a wealthy businessman, broods over his father’s death and his mother’s hasty remarriage to his uncle, Adrien. Lucie loves him, despite the disapproval of her father,...
Shakespeare is Alive and Well in the Modern World (1960 Audio, Multimedia)
The programme attempts to make Shakespeare’s words and ideas more accessible to young people. Using dramatic examples from contemporary versions of Shakespeare’s plays, students are helped to to...
Otello (1957 Television)
- Director
- Claudio Fino
Italian TV version of the celebrated 1956 stage production by Vittorio Gassman of Shakespeare’s tragedy, translated into Italian by Salvatore Quasimodo. Gassman and Salvo Randone had originally alternated...
Othello (1952 Film)
- Director
- Orson Welles
- Producer
- Orson Welles
Feature film. Welles’ first European work, shot in fits and starts over four years at various locations in Morocco and Italy, due to lack of finance. This accounts for the inconsistent technical quality,...