Othello (1998 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Bill Shepherd; Tom Treadwell

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with Don...

Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1998 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Bill Shepherd; Tom Treadwell

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with John...

Richard II (1998 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with Rupert...

Richard III (1998 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with David...

Romeo and Juliet (1998 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with Joseph...

Shakespeare in Love (1998 Film, Video)

Director

John Madden

Producer

David Parfitt; Harvey Weinstein; Marc Norman; Edward Zwick; Donna Gigliotti

Feature film. A comic drama in which William Shakespeare is portrayed as a young writer who is struggling financially and, envious of a rival, meets an aspiring actress who dresses as a boy to work in...

Story of English, The (1998 Video)

Producer

Pater Dale; Vivian Ducat

1: The diversity of ‘varieties’ of English in use throughout the world including public school/Oxbridge, post-colonial in India and Africa, feminist, high-tech, American, Pacific Basin, gay, academic....

Taming of the Shrew, The (1998 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with Frances...

Tempest, The (1998 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. A performance with Bob Peck as Prospero and Jennifer Ehle as Miranda,

Timon of Athens (1998 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with Alan...

Troilus and Cressida (1998 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Ian Pepperell and Julia Ford in the title roles.

Twelfth Night (1998 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with Niamh...

Two Gentlmen of Verona, The (1998 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Based on the text of the Pelican Shakespeare editions. A performance with Michael...

Sonnets, The (1998 Audio)

Series

New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio

A recording of the sonnets using the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition edited by Gwynne Blakemore Evans. The sonnets are read by Alex Jennings.

Love Labour’s Lost (1998 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Tom Treadwell; Bill Shepherd

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. A recording with Greg Wise as Ferdinand, King of Navarre and Alex Jennings as Berowne.

Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1998 Audio)

Series

Arkangel Complete Shakespeare

Director

Clive Brill

Producer

Bill Shepherd; Tom Treadwell

The Arkangel series consists of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, uncut, fully-dramatised and accompanied by original music. Dinsdale Landen is Falstaff.

William Shakespeare: A Poet for All Time (1998 Video)

aka: Poet for All Time

Series

Master Poets Collection

Director

Mike Gibbon

Producer

Marshall Jamison

Alan Howard presents some of Shakespeare’s best known passages. Contents: As you like it ( ‘All the world’s a stage’); Sonnet 30 (`When to the sessions of sweet silent thought’); Sonnet 18 (`Shall...

Free Enterprise (1998 Film)

Director

Robert Meyer Burnett

Producer

Mark A. Altman

Feature film. Two aspiring film-makers run into William Shatner (playing himself) in a Hollywood bookstore. The film-makers have been Star Trek fans for many years and believe their dreams are now realised....

Black Firsts (1998 Television)

Series

Windrush Season

Producer

Joanna Burge

A series of short programmes transmitted as part of the BBC WINDRUSH season made to mark 50 years since the Windrush ship brought black immigrants to Britain. Black people who broke down barriers for others...

Antony and Cleopatra (1998 Video)

Director

Sean Mathias

A National Theatre recording, on a single fixed camera, of the 1998 National Theatre production directed by Sean Mathias and designed by Tim Hatley. Alan Rickman as Antony and Helen Mirren as Cleopatra.

Tempest, The (1998 Television)

Director

Jack Bender

A television version of The Tempest set during the American Civil War. Critically savaged, the interpretation is concerned with slavery and the role of revenge in wartime. Gideon Prosper (Fonda), is the...

Shakespeare’s Women and Claire Bloom (1998 Television, Video)

Director

Phillip Schopper

Producer

Julian Schlossberg; Seymour Wishman

Documentary. The career of British actress Claire Bloom, paying particular attention to her playing of Shakespearean heroines. ‘Talking head’ delivery is interspersed with excerpts from both film and...

Our Man in Othello (1998 Television)

Series

Video Nation

Director

Rachel Foster

Producer

Rachel Foster

Television documentary series, in three-parts, in which people gave personal accounts of an episode in their lives in the form of a video diary. David Harewood makes a record of the National Theatre’s tour...

Shakespeare’s R & J (1998 Video)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Joe Calarco

Video recording of the play by Joe Calarco. Four boys in a repressive Catholic boarding school (of several decades ago) engage in a clandestine reading of a copy of Romeo and Juliet which is hidden under the...

Cymbeline (1998 Video)

Director

Andrei Serban

Video recording of the play produced for the New York Shakespeare Festival, directed for stage by Andrei Serban and videotaped for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker. Stephanie Roth Haberle...

King Henry VIII (1998 Video)

Director

Gregory Doran

Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of King Henry VIII directed by Gregory Doran with Paul Jesson as Henry VIII and Jane Lapotaire as Queen Katherine.

Macbeth (1998 Video)

Director

George C. Wolfe

Video recording of the production for the New York Shakespeare Festival, directed for stage by George C. Wolfe and videotaped for Theatre on Tape and Film (TOFT) by Richard Stucker.

Richard III (1998 Video)

Director

Ron Daniels

A video recording of the play directed by Ron Daniels with Christopher McCann as Richard.

Richard II (1998 Video)

Director

Ron Daniels

A video recording of the stage production directed by Ron Daniels with Steven Skybell as Richard.

Hamlet (1998 Video)

Director

Matthew Warchus

Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s modern dress production directed by Matthew Warchus with Alex Jennings as Hamlet.

Shakespeare’s Life and Work (1998 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Trade, The

Producer

Jane Greenwood (2)

Five-part radio series in which Professor Peter Holland talks to writers, actors and critics about aspects of Shakespeare’s work. In episode one he talks to biographer Park Honan and Katherine...

Shakespeare on the Stage (1998 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Trade, The

Producer

Jane Greenwood (2)

Five-part radio series in which Professor Peter Holland talks to writers, actors and critics about aspects of Shakespeare’s work. In episode two he talks to director Michael Bogdanov from the English...

Shakespeare at the Movies (1998 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Trade, The

Producer

Jane Greenwood (2)

Five-part radio series in which Professor Peter Holland talks to writers, actors and critics about aspects of Shakespeare’s work. In episode three he talks to Barbara Hodgdon, author of The Shakespeare...

Queer Shakespeare (1998 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Trade, The

Producer

Jane Greenwood (2)

Five-part radio series in which Professor Peter Holland talks to writers, actors and critics about aspects of Shakespeare’s work. In episode four he talks to Bruce Smith and Alan Sinfield about gay...

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1998 Audio)

Series

New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio

Director

Neville Jason

Producer

Nicholas Soames

An unabridged recording of the play using the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition edited by R.A. Foakes.

Macbeth (1998 Audio)

Series

New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio

Director

Fiona Shaw

Producer

Nicholas Soames

An unabridged recording of the play using the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition edited by A.R. Braunmuller. Stephen Dillane and Fiona Shaw are the Macbeths.

Epiphanous Use of the Microphone, An (1998 Radio)

Series

Friday Play, The

Producer

Martin Jenkins (2)

Radio play produced to celebrate 75 years of BBC radio drama which began 28 May 1923 with a production of Twelfth Night. In the BBC’s Headquarter in Savoy Hill, Director-General John Reith and actress...

Mrs Shakespeare (1998 Radio)

Series

Afternoon Play

Director

Patrick Rayner

Radio drama written by Robert Nye and adapted from his own novel. A portrait of Shakespeare seen through the eyes of his wife, Anne Hathaway. Anne gives an account of the week she first visited William in...

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (1998 Radio)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Series

Sound Stories

Producer

Piers Burton-Page

Radio series, broadcast over five consecutive days, in which Peggy Reynolds unravels the plot of a Shakespeare play and introduces music associated with it. ROMEO AND JULIET includes excerpts from...

Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor (1998 Radio)

aka: Merry Wives of Windsor, The

Series

Sound Stories

Producer

Piers Burton-Page

Radio series, broadcast over five consecutive days, in which Peggy Reynolds unravels the plot of a Shakespeare play and introduces music associated with it. Part 2 THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR includes...

Shakespeare: Hamlet (1998 Radio)

aka: Hamlet

Series

Sound Stories

Producer

Piers Burton-Page

Radio series, broadcast over five consecutive days, in which Peggy Reynolds unravels the plot of a Shakespeare play and introduces music associated with it. Part 3 HAMLET includes excerpts from Ambroise...

Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1998 Radio)

aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Series

Sound Stories

Producer

Piers Burton-Page

Radio series, broadcast over five consecutive days, in which Peggy Reynolds unravels the plot of a Shakespeare play and introduces music associated with it. Part 4 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM includes...

Shakespeare: Macbeth (1998 Radio)

aka: Macbeth

Series

Sound Stories

Producer

Piers Burton-Page

Radio series, broadcast over five consecutive days, in which Peggy Reynolds unravels the plot of a Shakespeare play and introduces music associated with it. Part 5 MACBETH includes excerpts from Verdi’s...

Role Play: Lady Macbeth (1998 Radio)

aka: Lady Macbeth

Series

Postcript

Radio programme. A five-part series in which Michael Billington talks to actors and singers about their experiences of playing the same character in theatrical and operatic productions. In episode 2 Kristine...

Tempest in Bsl, The (1998 Video)

Director

John Lee (2)

A performance of The Tempest by seven deaf actors using British Sign Language, filmed at Penlanole, mid-Wales.

As You Like It (1998 Video)

Director

Lucy Bailey

Video recording of the Shakespeare Globe’s Theatre 1998 production of As You Like It directed by Lucy Bailey with Anastasia Hille as Rosalind.

Merchant of Venice, The (1998 Video)

Director

Richard Olivier

Video recording of the Shakespeare Globe Theatre’s 1998 production of The Merchant of Venice with Norbert Kentrup as Shylock.

Solomon and Gaenor (1998 Film)

Director

Paul Morrison

Producer

Sheryl Crown

Feature film. A loose reworking of the Romeo and Juliet story. Set in a small coal mining village in Wales in 1911, a young Jewish peddler (Solomon) meets Gaenor, the eldest daughter of a Christian mining...

Shylock (1998 Film)

aka: Shylock for All Seasons

Director

Pierre Lasry

Producer

Kenneth Hirsch

Documentary. A film which contends that hatred of Jews goes back 2,000 years, culminating with the near destruction of European Jewry. Argues that for the last 400 years, Western attitudes towards Jews have...

King Lear (1998 Multimedia)

Series

Interactive Shakespeare Library

The CD-ROM includes: a complete and fully searchable text of the play, synchronised with dramatisations of key scenes and speeches; a synopsis of the play; lists of key characters and explanations of their...