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112 results found for all records.
Tragedia Alla Corte di Sicilia, Una (1914 Film)
aka: Winter’s Tale, The Lost Princess, The Novella d’Inverno: Una Novella di Shakespeare
- Director
- Baldassare Negroni
Abbreviated version of The Winter’s Tale. William Shakespeare reads the play to some friends. The story is largely the plot of the play but Autolycus is omitted and there is no pursuit of a bear. McKernan...
Maschera Che Sanguina, La (1914 Film)
Fiction short. An actor recites a soliloquy from Hamlet to great applause and the daughter of a rich banker falls in love with him.
Otello (1914 Film)
aka: Othello, Or, The Moor of Venice
Silent film version of Othello filmed in Venice. Paolo Colachi plays Othello.
Marcantonio e Cleopatra (1913 Film)
aka: Antony and Cleopatra
- Director
- Enrico Guazzoni
Feature film loosely based on Shakespeare’s play which was praised for its lavish costumes, spectacular sets, and ambitious special effects.
Bisbetica Domata, La (1913 Film)
aka: Taming of the Shrew, The
- Producer
- Arturo Ambrosio
A version of The Taming of the Shrew which follows the principal action quite closely but eliminates the induction and the scenes with Bianca’s lovers.
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1913 Film)
Fiction film. Ball (op cit) writes (p.168). ‘All the camera work was done out of doors, and the scenery is lovely and charmingly rustic. Remarkably for its period, the photography is technically advanced,...
Bianco Contro Negro (1913 Film)
- Director
- Ernesto Maria Pasquali
Experimental sound film of Verdi’s opera.
Romeo e Giulietta (1912 Film)
aka: Romeo and Juliet
- Director
- Ugo Falena
Romeo and Juliet with Francesca Bertini as Juliet and Gustavo Serena as Romeo.
Spettro de Iago, Lo (1912 Film)
aka: Vengeance of Iago, The
Fiction film. The connection to Shakespeare’s play is tenuous but the plot is set in Cyprus and involves rivalry for a girl’s affections and the attempted vengeance of the disappointed lover.
Bruto (1911 Film)
aka: Brutus
- Director
- Enrico Guazzoni
Fiction short based on Julius Caesar which largely follows the main events of the play from the death of Caesar to the death of Brutus. Guazzoni remade the story for Cines in 1914 for the feature length...