Shakespeare Resources

BOND/360, 2014, 2 hours 25 minutes (Alexander Street)
Director: Julie Taymor
Performers: Kathryn Hunter, David Harewood, Tina Benko, Roger Clark, Okwui Ikpokwasili, Robert Langdon Lloyd, Lilly Englert, Zach Appelman, Jake Horowitz, Mandi Masden, Max Casella, Joe Grifasi, Zachary Infante, William Youmans, Jacob Ming-Trent, Brendan Averett

BBC, 2016, 1 hour 32 minutes
Director: David Kerr
Performers: John Hannah, Elliot Levey, Eleanor Matsuura, Colin McFarlane, Prisca Bakare, Matthew Tennyson, Paapa Essiedu, ate Kennedy, Matt Lucas, Richard Wilson, Bernard Cribbins, Elaine Paige, Fisayo Akinade, Javone Prince, Charlotte Blake, Hiran Abeysekera, Nonso Anozie, Maxine Peake, Varada Sethu, Tia Benbow-Hart, Marlene Madenge

BBC TV, 1981, 1 hour, 52 minutes
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Performers: Estelle Kohler, Nigel Davenport, Hugh Quarshie, Helen Mirren, Robert Lindsay

2011, 2 hours 11 minutes
Director: Beverly Bullock
Performers: Patricia McNamara, Peter Herrick, Joseph Small, John Montague, Katherine Kelly Litz, Joseph Mitchell Parks, Brian Morvant, Valerie Redd, Michael Bartoli, Benjamin Rishworth, Marc Greece, Thane Floreth, Steven Eng, Carol Jacobanis, Ron Dreyer

BBC, 2005, 1 hour 29 minutes
Director: Ed Fraiman
Performers: Dean Lennox Kelly, Lennie James, Qaseem Ansari, Nick Malinowski, Amy Darcy, Meg Faragher, Sharon Small, Ben Crompton, Emmanuel Ighodaro, Johnny Vegas, Mina Anwar, Simon Day, Michelle Bonnard, Rupert Evans, Zoe Tapper

Fox Searchlight Pictures andRegency Enterprises present a Michael Hoffman film ; produced by Leslie Urdang, Michael Hoffman ; screenplay by Michael Hoffman ; directed by Michael Hoffman.
Performers: Christian Bale (Demetrius), Rupert Everett (Oberon), Calista Flockhart (Helena), Anna Friel (Hermia), Bernard Hill (Egeus), Bill Irwin (Tom Snout), Gregory Jbara (Snug), Kevin Kline (Nick Bottom), Sophie Marceau (Hippolyta), Michelle Pfeiffer (Titania), Roger Rees (Peter Quince), Sam Rockwell (Francis Flute), John Sessions (Philostrate), David Strathairn (Theseus), Stanley Tucci (Puck), Dominic West (Lysander), Max Wright (Robin Starveling).
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"Series produced in Russia and Wales. Christmas Films with S4C in association with BBC Wales, Home Box Office and Fujisankei."
Disc 1: Tempest / directed by Stanislav Sokolov (25 min.) -- Midsummer night's dream / directed, designed and animated by Robert Saakiants (25 min.)-- As you like it / directed by Alexei Karayev (25 min.) -- Disc 2: Hamlet / directed by Natalia Orlova (25 min.) -- Julius Caesar / directed by Yuri Kulakov -- Richard III / directed by Natasha Orlova (25 min.) -- Disc 3: Romeo and Juliet / directed by Efim Gambourg (25 min.) -- Othello / directed and designed by Nikolai Serebriakov (25 min.) -- Winter's tale / directed by Stanislav Sokolov (25 mn.) -- Disc 4: Macbeth / directed by Nikolai Serebriakov (25 min.) -- Taming of the shrew / directed by Aida Ziablikova (25 min.) -- Twelfth night / directed by Maria Muat (25 min.).
Featuring the voice talents of Antony Sher, Joss Ackland, Jenny Agutter, with others.

PBS, 2015, 53 minutes
Shakespeare uncovered. Season 2, episode 1
Hugh Bonneville started his career understudying Ralph Fiennes as Lysander, one of the four lovers in A Midsummer Night's Dream. They meet up to try to untangle the extraordinary plot of one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular plays, a great comedy of love and enchantment with a delicate balance between comedy and tragedy, the natural and the supernatural.

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-- Presents concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work -- Provides multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters -- Digests of critical extracts prefaced by headnotes

Films For The Humanities & Sciences, 2004, 1 hour 17 minutes
"This program features excerpts from four Royal Shakespeare Company productions : King Lear, Twelfth night, A midsummer night's dream, and Coriolanus. Each segment of the program includes key scenes from the play intertwined with interviews and explanations of the play with both actors and directors."

Bullfrom Films, 2002, 90 minutes
Twenty five years after the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnamese and Americans join forces in a unique collaboration. Two theater companies, one American, one Vietnamese, come together to stage the first performances in Vietnam of Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A Dream in Hanoi follows the actors, directors, producers and technicians from both countries as they struggle to surmount the obstacles of language, culture, ideology and a history of war—on their journey to opening night at Hanoi's famous Opera House.