Shakespeare Resources

Broadway Theatre Archive, 1976, 1 hour 42 minutes
Director: Kirk Browning & William Ball
Performers: Raye Birk, Ron Boussom, Harry Hamlin, Rick Hamilton, Fredi Olster, Sandra Shotwell, Marc Singer, Laird Williamson, James Winkler, William Paterson

BBC TV, 1980, 2 hours, 7 minutes
Director: Jonathan Miller
Performers: Simon Chandler, Anthony Pedley, John Franklyn-Robbins, Frank Thornton, John Cleese

TMW Media Group, 1983, 1 hour 55 minutes
Director: John Allison
Performers: Karen Austin, Franklyn Seales, Bruce Davison, Larry Drake, Jeremy Lawrence, Kay E. Kuter, Nathan Adler, David Chemel, Charles Berendt, Kathryn Johnson, Jay Robinson, Bill Erwin

BBC, 2005, 1 hour 33 minutes
Director: David Richards
Performers: Jaime Murray, Alex Giannini, Rufus Sewell, Shirley Henderson, Frederico Zanni, Santiago Cabrera

Stratford Festival, 2016, 2 hours 36 minutes
Director: Barry Avrich
Performers: Ben Carlson, Peter Hutt, Sarah Afful, Mike Shara, Cyrus Lane,Tom Rooney, Gordon S. Miller, Michael Spencer-Davis, Robert King, John Kirkpatrick, Sarah Orenstein, Brad Rudy, Thomas Olajide, Derek Moran, Xuan Fraser

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1967.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Performers: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern, Alfred Lynch, Alan Webb, Michael York, Victor Spinetti, Natasha Pyne.
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Originally produced as a stage production for the Stratford Festival and broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1988. "In this Stratford Festival production, The Taming of the Shrew is set in a colourful Italy of the 1950's, with Petruchio as a swaggering leather-jacketed street bandit who roars up to marry Kate on a sporty Lambretta."
Director: Norman Campbell
Performers: Colm Feore, Goldie Semple, Geraint Wyn Davies, Scott Wentworth
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Based on the play Taming of the shrew. Originally released as motion picture in 1999.
Director: Gil Junger
Performers: Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, Larry Miller, Andrew Keegan, David Krumholtz, Susan May Pratt.
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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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