Romeo and Juliet (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...

Hamlet (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...

Measure for Measure (1998 Video)

Director

Michael Boyd

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1998 produciton of Measure for Measure. Directed by Michael Boyd with Stephen Boxer as Angelo and Clare Holman as Isabella.

Richard III (1998 Video)

Director

Elijah Moshinsky

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1998 touring production of Richard III. Directed by Elijah Moshinsky with Robert Lindsay as Richard.

Tempest, The (1998 Video)

Director

Adrian Noble

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1998 production of The Tempest. Directed by Adrian Noble with David Calder as Prospero.

Twelfth Night (1998 Video)

Director

Adrian Noble

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1997 production of Twelfth Night. Directed by Adrian Noble with Helen Schlesinger as Viola and Philip Voss as Malvolio.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (1998 Video)

Director

Ed Hall

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the 1998 Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Directed by Ed Hall with Tom Goodman-Hill as Valentine and Dominic Rowan as...

Exile (1998 Video)

Director

Brad Armstrong

Hardcore porn film offering a ‘futuristic spin-off’ of Romeo and Juliet. The Shakespeare content does not extend much beyond the names of the lovers.

Midsummer Night’s Dream: What to Make of Magic, A (1998 Video)

Series

Staging Dreams: Casting and Interpreting Shakespeare

Educational videotape. What do fairies look like? How can magic be staged meaningfully in modern theatre? The programme presents scenes from several filmed versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that show...

Richard II: Casting a King (1998 Video)

Series

Staging Dreams: Casting and Interpreting Shakespeare

Educational videotape. Casting often determines where an audience’s sympathy lies; choosing an actor to play a major role like Richard II or Bolingbroke can be a complex procedure, often requiring a...

Stormen (1998 Television)

aka: Tempest, The

Director

Goran Stangertz

Producer

Anne-Cathrine Sundgren

Swedish television adaptation of The Tempest directed by Goran Stangertz and translated into Swedish by Allan Bergstrand. Staffan Gothe is Prospero.

Tom Stoppard (1998 Television)

Series

Charlie Rose Show, The

US interview show hosted by Charlie Rose. Tom Stoppard talks about SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE - the process, screenwriting, the ways in which he incorporated Shakespeare into the film, the problems of adaptations,...

William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (1998 Television)

aka: Twelfth Night

Series

Live from Lincoln Center

Director

Nicholas Hytner

Live television broadcast of the stage production directed by Nicholas Hytner for the Lincoln Centre 1998 Festival. Helen Hunt is Viola and Philip Bosco is Malvolio.

Was Shakespeare a Thief? (1998 Radio)

In this short radio programme, solicitor and scholar Anthony Julius, lecturer of law and literature at University College, London, discusses whether a case of plagiarism can be made when linked to a creative...

Love, Tyranny and Madness (1998 Television)

Director

Patrick Reams

Documentary on King Lear shown ahead of Richard Eyre’s production with Ian Holm transmitted later the same evening. The themes of the play are debated by actors Warren Mitchell, James Earl Jones and...

Twelfth Night (1998 Audio, Radio)

aka: BBC Radio Collection: William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Series

Sunday Play, The

Director

Eoin O’Callaghan

Twelfth Night directed for radio by Eoin O’Callaghan, with Michael Maloney, Josette Simon and Anne-Marie Duff. Introduced by Richard Eyre. With music composed and performed by Neil Brand, and accompanied...

Tempest, The (1998 Radio)

Series

Bank of Montreal Stratford Festival

Director

Richard Monette

Radio broadcast of The Tempest with William Hutt as Prospero.

Imposters, The (1998 Television)

aka: Ship of Fools

Director

Stanley Tucci

Producer

Stanley Tucci; Elizabeth W. Alexander

Slapstick comedy feature film set in the Depression. Maurice (Platt) and Arthur (Tucci) are two struggling actors who insult a famous hammy and declamatory Shakespearean actor, Jeremy Burtom (Molina) who is...

Naked Frailties (1998 Film)

Director

Larry Reese

Independent feature film made by students and staff at Red Deer College in Alberta. Ross, a student actor, receives a head injury after a stage fight. The director, Mr Stuart, assigns the part of Macbeth to...

Te con Mussolini, Un (1998 Film)

aka: Tea with Mussolini

Director

Franco Zeffirelli

Producer

Riccardo Tozzi; Giovannella Zannoni; Clive Parsons

Feature film comedy drama, based on Zeffirelli’s autobiography, concerning a group of elderly expatriate English women living in Florence in 1934. One of the group (Mary), who are known as the...

Dance Theatre of Harlem (1998 Video)

Director

Sarah Stackhouse

Three dances performed by the Dance Theatre of Harlem, artistic director Arthur Mitchell. 1. The Moor’s Pavane (Limón). 2. Adrian (Alleyne). 3. Sasanka (Sekwati). The Moor’s Pavane (c25mins) is directed...

Do Shakespeare’s Tragedies Still Work? (1998 Video)

Series

Works & Process at the Guggenheim

Producer

Mary Sharp Cronson

A panel discussion, moderated by Bill Buford, on Shakespeare’s tragedies and their continuing relevance. Director Matthew Warchus discusses his modern-dress production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare...

Melancholy Brain (1998 Television)

Series

Pinky and the Brain

Director

Charles Visser

Animation series. Pinky and the Brain are cartoon characters from the animated television series Animaniacs. They are genetically enhanced lab mice who reside in a cage in the Acme Labs research facility....

Shakespeare in America (1998 Television)

Producer

Peter D. Marshall; Mike, Jr Baker

Documentary narrated by Mike Baker, Jr. Includes an account of Shakespeare’s life in Stratford and London and the new Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on Bankside (interviews with the Education Director,...

Vie et Mort du Roi John (1998 Television)

aka: King John

Director

Laurent Pelly

A television recording of Laurent Pelly’s stage production of King John produced for the 1998 Festival d’Avignon. Gregoire Ostermann is King John.

Macbeth (1998 Audio)

A recording of Verdi’s Macbeth recorded live at La Scala, Milan in 1952. Maria Callas sings the role of Lady Macbeth and Enzo Mascherini is Macbeth. The Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus are conducted...

Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1998 Video)

Director

Daniel Fish

A video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 1998 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor directed by Daniel Fish and set in a Catskills holiday resort in the 1950s. David Sabin is Falstaff.

Much Ado About Nothing (1998 Video)

Director

Joe Banno

A video recording of Joe Banno’s production of Much Ado About Nothing for the Folger Theatre with David Fendig as Benedick and Holly Twyford as Beatrice. Videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1998 Video)

Director

Joe Banno; Lofty Durham

A video recording of the Washington Theatre Company’s production of Pericles directed by Joe Banno and Lofty Durham with Ian Le Valley as Pericles. Videotaped for WAPAVA by James. J. Taylor.

Twelfth Night (1998 Video)

Director

Daniel Fish

Videorecording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 1998 production of Twelfth Night directed by Daniel Fish with Tari Signor as Viola and Floyd King as Malvolio. Videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor.

Kral Lear (1998 Video)

aka: King Lear

Director

Michal Docekal

King Lear directed by Michal Docekal in 1998 for the Theatre of Comedy, Prague. Miloslav Mejzlik is Lear.

Sen Noci Svatojanske (1998 Video)

aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

Director

Jiri Menzel

A video recording of Jiri Menzel’s 1998 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the South Bohemia Theatre. Peter Hanus is Oberon and Daniela Bambasova is Titania.

Hamlet (1998 Video)

Director

Petr Vesely

Video recording of Petr Vesely’s 1998 production of Hamlet for the Municipal Theatre, Zlin with Ludek Randar in the title role.

Shakespeare 2000 (1998 Radio)

Series

Sunday Feature

Producer

Tim Dee

Radio documentary. From the Sir John Falstaff Goblet Collection to the complete plays on CD Rom, Shakespeare is alive in multitudinous ways. But in what state is the English national poet at the new...

Winter’s Tale, The (1998 Video)

Director

Brian Bedford

A video recording of Brian Bedford’s 1998 production of The Winter’s Tale for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Wayne Best is Leontes and Kate Trotter plays Hermione.

Julius Caesar (1998 Video)

Director

Donald Campbell

A video recording of Douglas Campbell’s 1998 production of Julius Caesar for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Stephen Russell is Julius Caesar and Benedict Campbell plays Mark Antony.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (1998 Video)

Director

Richard Rose

Video recording of Richard Rose’s 1998 production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. David Jansen is Proteus and Graham Abbey is Valentine.

Much Ado About Nothing (1998 Video)

Director

Richard Monette

Richard Monette’s production of Much Ado About Nothing for the 1998 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival set in the time of the Spanish-American War. Martha Henry is Beatrice and Brian Bedford is...

Muntra Fruarna I Windsor (1998 Television)

aka: Merry Wives of Windsor, The

Director

Stina Ancker

Producer

Pip Ehrnvall; Törbjorn Ehrnvall

Swedish television production of The Merry Wives of Windsor adapted by Magnus Lindman and directed by Stina Ancker. Björn Granath is Falstaff.

Ian McKellen (1998 Television)

Series

Face to Face

Producer

David Herman

Interview series. Jeremy Isaacs interviews Ian McKellen about his acting career and his life as a gay man.

All Our Sins Remembered... (1998 Film)

Director

Christopher Nicholson

Short. A translation of Hamlet set in a large multinational corporation in the present day.

Midah Ke-Neged Midah (1998 Video)

aka: Measure for Measure

Director

Gadi Roll

A production of Measure for Measure directed by Gadi Roll at the Ha-Han theatre, Jerusalem in 1998. No further details known (6/2008).

How to Write a Life of Shakespeare: Park Honan (1998 Audio)

Series

Royal Society of Literature

Lecture by Park Honan, author of Shakespeare: a Life, given at the Royal Society of Literature in 1998.

Makbed (1998 Audio)

Director

Ken Campbell; Nikki Amuka-Bird; Lorna Bennett

Ken Campbell’s version of Macbeth directed by Campbell, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Lorna Bennett and spoken in Pidgin English (Wol Wantok). Performed by 2nd year students at the London Academy of Music and...

Makbed (1998 Audio)

Director

Ken Campbell

Ken Campbell’s version of Macbeth, directed by Campbell, and spoken in Pidgin English (Wol Wantok). Performed by 2nd year students at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA). This recording...

Passnotes on Romeo and Juliet (1998 Radio)

Series

Afternoon Play

Director

Alison Hindell

Radio drama by Jane Buckler. "When Rom falls in love with Julie, he discovers that real life is very different from Shakespeare" [Radio Times]. No further details known.

Music and Shakespeare [02/10/1998] (1998 Radio)

Series

Music Machine

Producer

Christina Pritchard

Radio broadcast. Verity Sharp visits the Royal Shakespeare Company to find out how a composer goes about writing incidental music for a stage production of a Shakespeare play.

Music and Shakespeare [01/10/1998] (1998 Radio)

Series

Music Machine

Producer

Christina Pritchard

Radio broadcast. Verity Sharp talks to Alan Blyth about how Shakespearean drama has been adapted in music dramas and operas by a wide range of composers, from Bellini and Verdi to Britten and Bernstein.

Music and Shakespeare [28/09/1998] (1998 Radio)

Series

Music Machine

Producer

Christina Pritchard

Radio broadcast. Baz Luhrmann’s WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO + JULIET is set on Verona Beach. In addition to original music by Craig Armstrong and Marius De Vries, the soundtrack features contemporary pop...

Music and Shakespeare [29/09/1998] (1998 Radio)

Series

Music Machine

Producer

Christina Pritchard

Radio broadcast. Verity Sharp investigates the role of songs in Shakespeare’s plays.