Shakespeare Resources

BBC TV, 1979, 2 hours, 28 minutes
Director: David Giles
Performers: Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Rob Edwards, Anthony Quayle, Tim Pigott-Smith

produced by BBC & Time-Life Films
"A dramatization of five of Shakespeare's historic plays, featuring some of Britain's most distinguished theatrical talent."
Contents: Henry IV part I (147 min.) -- Henry IV part II (151 min.) -- Henry V (163 min.) -- Richard II (157 min.) -- Richard III (228 min.).
Performers: Jon Finch, Anthony Quayle, David Gwillim (Henry IV parts I and II); David Gwillim, Rod Edwards, Julian Glover (Henry V); Derek Jacobi, Sir John Gielgud, Charles Gray, John Finch, Dame Wendy Hiller (Richard II); Michael Byrne, Brian Protheroe (Richard III).
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Criterion Collection/Janus Films, 1966, 117 minutes
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Adapted by Orson Welles from William Shakespeare's plays (Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Richard II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor).
"The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career, Chimes at Midnight was the culmination of the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with Shakespeare's ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff--the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV's wayward son Prince Hal--here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace."

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Contains an introduction, continuity script of the film, an interview with Welles, reviews, and commentaries. Includes filmography and bibliographical references.

BBC, 2012, 52 minutes
Shakespeare Uncovered, Series I
"He will give the devil his due. Jeremy Irons researches Shakespeare's history plays as well as the differences between the real history and the father-son drama that Shakespeare creates."

MacNeil-Lehrer Productions, 2004, 10 minutes
"Jeffrey Brown speaks with actor Kevin Kline about the challenges of portraying Sir John Falstaff in the new production of Shakespeare's Henry IV at New York's Lincoln Center Beaumont Theatre."

Creative Arts Television, 1964, 26 minutes
"The character of Falstaff as seen by Shakespeare and Verdi. With performance of scenes from Verdi's "Falstaff" by Geraint Evans and Regina Resnik (Falstaff and Mistress Quickly respectively at the New York City Metropolitan Opera's production, 1964) and Maynard Mack, Professor of English at Yale University. Includes a photo montage of the stages of make-up construction for Mr. Evans and Ms. Resnik. Discussion topics include Did Verdi change the Shakespearean character of Falstaff?, Verdi's identification with Falstaff, who really was Falstaff? 1964."