THTR 318: Who Wrote Shakespeare?: Shakespeare Videos

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

Kenneth Branagh's production of Shakespeare's comedy of love and disguise, in a setting inspired by 19th century Japan.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

Adapted from the play by William Shakespeare and with the songs of George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Berlin, Desmond Carter, Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Field, Otto Harbach. Kenneth Branagh (Director)

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

Silent Shakespeare. 10 minutes. Directed by Gerolamo Lo Savio.

Laurence Olivier

William Shakespeare's story of love and revenge is innovatively set in the 1930s.

Al Pacino

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

11 minutes. Directed by James Stuart Blackton and Charles Kent.

Classic version from the 1930s with James Cagney as Bottom and Mickey Rooney as Puck.

Royal Shakespeare Company, Judi Dench.

Ingmar's Bergman's dark comedy about eight characters who become four couples while vacationing at a country estate.

Stephen Sondheim's musical based on Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night where mismatched couples in a delightful bedroom farce are all invited to a country estate where their lives (and loves) are inevitably sorted out.

Woody Allen's tale of three loving couples who meet in a quiet country get-together, but everyone seems to be loving the wrong person.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

Directed by Kenneth Branagh.

Joss Whedon

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

17 minutes. Directed by D.W. Griffith

Silent film from Denmark. Adapted from the play by Holger Drachmann, which is loosely adapted from Hans Christian Andersen's 'Svinedrengen' and William Shakespeare's 'The taming of the shrew.'

Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton sparkle and amuse as Katharina and Petruchio in William Shakespeare's comic look at male chauvinism and women's liberation in the 16th century.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

12 minutes. Directed by Percy Stow.

Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his space cruiser crew, and Robby the Robot, to the green-skied world that's home to Dr. Morbius and his daughter, and to a mysterious terror. Based on The Tempest.

An interpretation of Shakespeare's play The Tempest, with elaborate staging and modern touches.

In this adaption of William Shakespeare's The tempest, Prospero imagines and writes the play, speaking the characters' lines as he writes.

This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy ... Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera ... conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

13 minutes. Directed by Charles Kent, produced by J. Stuart Blackton.

Kenneth Branagh

Anglo-Indian adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth night set in contemporary London. Starring Parminder Nagra, Chiwetel Ejiofor.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

Silent Film from Italy. One of the rare early historical dramas imported by George Kleine, staged and photographed in Italy and Egypt.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

Caius Martius 'Coriolanus' is a feared and revered Roman general, suddenly pitted against his own city and fellow citizens. The banished hero joins forces with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius to extract his revenge and determine his destiny. Set in contemporary times.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

Asta Nielsen. This Hamlet remains one of the least known partly because the title role is played by a woman and the plot also borrows from Danish legends and a German play. For reasons of state the heiress to the throne has been brought up as a boy, and she has conceived a hopeless passion for Horatio.

Laurence Olivier

A young executive hunts down his father's killer. A tale about corruption in the boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan as seen through the rising executive eyes.

Richard Burton

Nicol Williamson

Mel Gibson

Kenneth Branagh

Ethan Hawke

A loose adaptation of Hamlet by William Shakespeare. A lavish Chinese epic, set in the Age of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, tells the story of a royal court in turmoil: forbidden love, deceit, revenge, overpowering beauty, and greed.

David Tennant

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

An adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, chronicling the events around the assassination of Julius Caesar. Marlon Brando.

"A fast-moving thriller about a struggle for democracy, William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is also a love story between two men united by an explosive act of political violence. Based on the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed stage production, Gregory Doran's film for BBC Television sets the action in post-independence Africa. With echos of the recent overthrow of dictators during the 'Arab Spring', the production explores the implications of political assassination and the unpredictability of its aftermath.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

Silent Shakespeare. 16 minutes. Directed by Gerolamo Lo Savio

Orson Welles

Written and directed by Grigory Kozintsev. In Russian with English subtitles.

Peter Brook

James Earl Jones

Laurence Olivier

In 16th century Japan, an aging ruler attempts to divide his kingdom among his three sons. They turn against each other and betray their father, triggering events that ultimately shatter the kingdom, destroy the family, and drive their father insane. In Japanese w/ English subtitles.

An experimental film with Peter Sellars (William Shakespeare Jr., the Fifth), Burgess Meredith (Don Learo), Molly Ringwald (Cordelia), Norman Mailer (The Great Writer), Jean-Luc Godard (The Professor), Woody Allen (The Fool).

Film version of the Royal National Theatre production of King Lear, William Shakespeare's play about a foolish king who divides his realm between two ungrateful daughters.

Created by a Danish director and writer from the Dogme 95 film movement. When their bus breaks down in the middle of the African desert, a mismatched group of travelers meets the absurdity of their situation head on-- by staging a production of Shakespeare's King Lear.

An aging Texas rancher must divvy up his land to his three daughters. There's certainly enough land to make everyone happy, but two of them want more.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.

Orson Welles

Akira Kurosawa, Director. Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.

Shakespearean tragedy collides with film noir in a remote Russian village in this dark fable from celebrated Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda.

Roman Polanski

Ian McKellen, Judi Dench

Greta Scacchi. Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth set in a timeless zone somewhere in the twentieth century against a raw, urban industrial environment.

An Indianized adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth set against the backdrop of Bombay's mafia world.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

Silent, with English subtitles. From Germany, starring Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss.

Orson Welles

An adaptation of Othello, by William Shakespeare, based on the Russian translation by Boris Pasternak. Dubbed into English. This is also available online (in Russian only) from the Mosfilm website.

Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith

Laurence Fishburne, Kenneth Branagh

A retelling of Shakespeare's Othello. Yinka, from the Yoruba tribe, and Ngozi, an Ibo, meet in the National Youth Service Corps in Nigeria.

Hugo, the son of the coach of a prep school basketball team is jealous of the attention his father is giving to Odin, the team's star. Hugo plans to get revenge by driving Odin apart from his girlfriend, Desi.

Omkara is Vishal Bhardwaj's 'Wild West' version of ... Othello. ... Omkara is a gifted chieftain who heads a gang of outlaws, including the crafty Langda Tyagi and the dynamic Kesu amongst his chief cohorts.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s.

Directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting.

A modern adaptation of the classic love story, moved to the futuristic urban backdrop of Verona Beach. Starring Leonardo di Caprio, Claire Danes.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

directed by Julie Taymor, starring Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

3 minutes. Directed by Walter Pfeffer Dando.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

King Richard , a vain, self-indulgent man who rules with little regard for his people's welfare, is called upon to settle a dispute between his cousin Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray. In an act that will spell doom for his reign, he banished both men, and sets into motion a chain of events that will change British history forever.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

Story of the friendship between a bohemian, boisterous Falstaff and the young Prince Hal, the future King of England. It dramatizes the betrayal of that friendship, and Falstaff's disillusionment when the prince does become king. Adapted by Orson Welles from William Shakespeare's Henry IV, parts I and II.
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King Henry IV sees his reign marred by uprisings led by young Harry Hotspur and undercut by the impulsive, irresponsible actions of his son Prince Hal. As stakes get even higher, both sides converge in the epic battle of Shrewsbury.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

The increasingly frail King Henry staves off insurrection following the battle of Shrewsbury and the rise of his son, Prince Hal, who will ascend to the throne as Henry V.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

Directed by Laurence Olivier

Directed by Kenneth Branagh.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

22 minutes.

"The earliest surviving American feature film." Produced as a vehicle for Frederick Warde, a legendary stage actor of the 19th century, "Richard III" was the most ambitious Shakespearean adaptation to date.

Laurence Olivier, director.

Ian McKellen

This is also available online in the BBC Shakespeare Plays database.

Performing Shakespeare's legendary monologues and sonnets, one of the most accomplished actors of all time, John Gielgud, presents his acclaimed one-man tour de force in this unforgettable live broadcast.

Sir Richard Eyre--former director of the Royal National Theatre--explores the history of 20th century drama and its confluence with the theater of Ireland, America, and Germany. [v. 1]. Shakespeare: drama's DNA (59:00)

Follows the week-by-week progress of the Company preparing to stage a production of Hamlet.

Trevor Nunn discusses the various forms of Shakespeare's character, Hamlet and delves into the underlying dynamics of the play, the psychological aspects of Hamlet, the oedipal conflict, Hamlet's madness, and the political questions raised in the play.

Depicts the cast and crew of Al Pacino's production of Shakespeare's Richard III through rehearsals and the behind-the-scenes processes that go into creating characters and mounting a production.

Provides a fascinating picture of how Robert Wilson created his unique one-man performance of Hamlet.

Nine intensive acting workshops conducted by John Barton of the Royal Shakespeare Company demonstrate how the Company makes Shakespeare's classic plays accessible to modern audiences without compromising the text's integrity.

Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company present a workshop before a television studio audience to demonstrate how they rehearse and learn to perform Shakespeare's plays.

From 1960, this series was the most conceptually ambitious Shakespeare project ever attempted for either film or television. Its fifteen parts encompassed Richard II, both parts of Henry IV, Henry V, all three parts of Henry VI and Richard III, effectively presenting a chronological history of British royalty from 1377 to 1485.

Royal Shakespeare Company directors John Barton and Sir Peter Hall travel to America to conduct workshops with the all-star cast of the Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice.

Six episodes combine history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis, and the personal passion of their celebrated hosts (Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Trevor Nunn, Joely Richardson, and David Tennant) to tell the story behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays.

Cicely Berry (voice director of the Royal Shakespeare Company) & Andrew Wade (head of voice for the RSC) lead a group of well-known American & British actors in a series of vocal exercises, focusing on the fundamentals of meter & rhythm in Shakespeare's verse.

The real-life adventures of a traveling theater group in India during the final days of English colonial rule. They try to uphold British tradition by staging Shakespearean plays but can't compete with the wildly popular Bollywood film industry.

When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before!

Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, intrigue and suspense advance the theory that it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays.