Shakespeare &

FILMED PLAYS

BBC Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra

BBC Shakespeare: As You Like It

BBC Shakespeare: Hamlet Dir. Rodney Bennet, 1980.

BBC Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

BBC Shakespeare: King Lear Dir. Jonathan Miller

BBC Shakespeare: Macbeth Dir. Jack Gold

BBC Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice Dir. Jack Gold.

BBC Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Dir. Elijah Moshinsky, 1981.

BBC Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing

BBC Shakespeare: Othello

BBC Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet Dir. Alvin Rakoff

BBC Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew

BBC Shakespeare: The Tempest Dir. John Gorrie

BBC Shakespeare: Twelfth Night Dir. John Gorrie.

A Doll’s House Dir. Patrick Garland, 1974. Claire Bloom and Anthony Hopkins star in Ibsen’s play.

Hamlet Dir. Michael Almereyda. Transposed to modern day New York, starring Ethan Hawke.

Hamlet Dir. Franco Zeffirelli, 1990. Mel Gibson stars.

Hamlet - the Director’s Cut Dir. Kenneth Branagh. This much lauded full-length version is well worth its four hours in the telling. (VHS)

Hamlet Dir. Laurence Olivier, 1948. Winner of 5 Academy Awards.

Henry V Dir. and starring Kenneth Branagh, 1989.

Henry V Dir. Laurence Olivier, 1978.

Julius Caesar Dir. Joseph Mankiewicz, with Marlon Brando and John Gielgud, 1953. (VHS)

King Lear Dir. Michael Elliot. 1983 Granada TV version stars Laurence Olivier, Diana Rigg, Leo McKern.

Macbeth Dir. Geoffrey Wright, Aust. 2006. Transplants the play to current day Melbourne gangland.

Macbeth Dir. Roman Polanski. Famous 1971 version, starring Jon Finch.

The Merchant of Venice. Dir. John Sichel. Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright head the cast of this 1974 National Theatre Company production. (VHS)

The Merchant of Venice Dir. Michael Radford, 2004. Stars Al Pacino as Shylock, Jeremy Irons as Antonio and Joseph Fiennes as Bassanio.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Dir. Michael Hoffman, 1999. Enjoyable star studded version set in late 19^th Century Italy.

A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Lindsay Kemp company performing Shakespeare's classic. (VHS)

Miss Julie Dir. Mike Figgis. This version of Strindberg’s play about attraction between the classes stars Saffron Burrows and Peter Mullan.

Much Ado About Nothing Dir. Kenneth Branagh, 1993. Delightful version filmed in and around a Tuscan villa.

Othello Dir. Stuart Burge. Laurence Olivier , Maggie Smith & Frank Finlay star in acclaimed production. (VHS)

Othello Dir. Trevor Nunn. RSC version starring Ian McKellen. (VHS)

Othello Dir. Oliver Parker. Accessible new version stars Laurence Fishburne, Kenneth Branagh and Irène Jacob.

Othello Dir. Orson Welles, 1952.

The Quare Fellow Dir. Arthur Dreifuss (1962). Adaptation of Brendan Behan's play about capital punishment. (VHS)

Richard II Dir. Michael Bogdanov. English Shakespeare Company production, 1990. (VHS)

Richard III Dir. Laurence Olivier’s 1955 film version. (VHS)

Richard III Dir. Michael Bogdanov and the English Shakespeare Company (VHS)

Richard III Dir. Richard Loncraine. Ingenious resetting of this tale of murder and political intrigue to 1930s England during a Fascist coup (VHS)

Romeo and Juliet Dir. Baz Luhrmann, this new high energy version stars Leonardo Di Caprio and Claire Danes.

Romeo and Juliet Dir. Franco Zeffirelli. Olivia Hussey stars in famous 1968 adaptation.

The Taming of the Shrew Dir. Franco Zeffirelli, stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. (VHS)

Tempest Dir. Paul Mazursky. Shakespeare's play in a modern setting. (VHS)

The Three Sisters Dir. Laurence Olivier, 1970. Splendid National Theatre Company screen version of Chekhov's play. (VHS)

Twelfth Night Dir. Kenneth Branagh. A Renaissance Theatre Production.

Uncle Vanya Dir. Laurence Olivier. Acclaimed 1962 Chichester Festival production of Chekhov play. (VHS)