Shakespeare Resources

Royal Shakespeare Company, 2015, 3 hours 3 minutes
Director: Robin Lough
Performers: Hugh Quarshie, Joanna Vanderham, Lucian Gabriel Wiina Msamati, Ayesha Dharker, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, James Corrigan, Brian Protheroe, Gwilym Lloyd, Tim Samuels, Nadia Albina, Scarlett Brookes, David Ajao

TMW Media Group, 1981, 3 hours 1 minutes
Director: Franklin Melton
Performers: William Marshall, Ron Moody; Jenny Agutter, DeVeren Bookwalter, Joel Asher, Leslie Paxton, Peter MacLean, Jay Robinson, Phillip Persons, Eugenia Wright, Michael Hayward,John Bliss, Arnold Markussen, Lanny Broyles

BBC TV, 1981, 3 hours, 24 minutes
Director: Jonathan Miller
Performers: Anthony Pedley, Bob Hoskins, Geoffrey Chater, Anthony Hopkins, Penelope Wilton

Films For The Humanities & Sciences, 1988, 3 hours 5 minutes
Director: Janet Suzman
Performers: John Kani, Richard Haddon Haines, Joanna Weinberg, Dorothy Gould, Frantz Dobrowsky, Neil McArthur

Bullfrog Films, 2006, 1 hour
This is part of an ongoing series of video guides to the Shakespeare plays most frequently taught in high school and college. In each video actors tell the story of a specific play, act key scenes and, in asides to the camera, explain and comment on the attitudes and relationships of the main characters.

Originally released as motion picture in 1952.
Director: Orson Welles
Performers: Orson Welles (Othello), Micheál Mac Liammóir (Iago), Robert Coote (Roderigo), Suzanne Cloutier (Desdemona), Hilton Edwards (Brabanito).
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Originally produced in 1995.
Director: Oliver Parker
Performers: Laurence Fishburne, Irene Jacob, Kenneth Branagh.
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Films for the Humanities & Sciences. Originally released as a motion picture in 1988 by Othello Productions Ltd.
"South African native and acclaimed actress Janet Suzman directed the 1987 stage production as well as this program, which marked the first time an African actor had been cast in the title role opposite a white Desdemona before a multiracial audience in Johannesburg"
Performers: Performed by the Market Theatre Company: John Kani (Othello), Richard Haddon Haines (Iago), Joanna Weinberg (Desdemona), Dorothy Gould (Emilia), Frantz Dobrowsky (Roderigo), Neil McCarthy (Cassio).
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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.

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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
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Contents: Introduction -- Reception -- Sources -- Setting, characters, and plot -- The time scheme -- The play in performance -- Playing black -- Othello and Iago -- Desdemona -- Emilia and Bianca -- Cassio and Roderigo -- Interpretation -- Reading blackness -- "Othello" and discovery -- "Othello" and the monstrous -- Place, office, and occupation -- Love, service, and identity -- The place of women -- Conclusion -- Editorial procedures -- Abbreviations and references -- The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice -- Appendix A. The date of the play -- Appendix B. The texts of the play -- The textual problem -- Quarto and Folio -- The scholarly debate -- Conclusion -- Appendix C. Giraldi Cinthio : "Gli Hecatommithi," third decade, seventh novella / translated by Bruno Ferraro -- Appendix D. The music in the play / Linda Phyllis Austern -- Appendix E. Alterations to lineation -- Appendix F. Longer notes.
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Films For The Humanities & Sciences, 1997, 32 minutes
Featured Speakers: John Woodford, Sally Broom, James Tovell, Nick Walton, Peter Balderstone, Patrick Robinson, Rebecca Cordingly

WGBH Boston Video, 1980, 29 minutes
This 1980s episode of Elliot Norton Reviews is a discussion with actors James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer.

TV/UK Department of Education, 2009, 28 minutes
"In this, the first of two Shakespeare masterclasses, a group of Year 10 students from north London start on the play Othello for the first time. The activities Sabrina Broadbent uses here are applicable to any Shakespeare play."