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Friday, April 1, 2016

Shakespeare Productions Online

This is a public service, with educational intention. Some would be available from libraries, even if it's interlibrary loan. No doubt streaming services can be useful -- and/but anything you want to keep, purchase. 

I've linked mostly to professional productions. A few are pretty awful (!), and some are (sometimes surprisingly) excellent.  Worth noting are the '65 LLL and the Chamberlain Hamlet; Stewart's Macbeth is close to flawless (aside from the sisters); the Jayston Macbeth has impressively intelligent performances (likewise, aside from the sisters). A few amateur efforts are included for the POV, when too few professional productions are available -- the disqualifications are bad sound and/or a distant static camera. Just for the history of it, I’ve included non-snippet silent films. There's more available, but I'll add as I please.

Links go dead, so there's that: Kozintsev's dubbed Hamlet, for example, and Maximilian Schell's from German TV -- although it's available after a manner of speaking. There are some sporadically hard-to-find works here. Sadly, the deep and vasty wood of the web is no safe place, and viruses lurk. If you find a dead link, or a toxic one, pls let me know (since 2016 exactly NOBODY has done this).  Be that as it may, in your idle or intentful hours, here's a place to invest your time.



COMEDY / ROMANCE
Two Gentlemen of Verona

RSC (VK).   One  Two sub 
LLCC (static camera)

Yihjanmae  YT A Spray of Plum Blossoms 1931 Chinese

Audio
Marlowe Soc. 1  2  3  4  5
Ark (VK)
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Taming of the Shrew

BBC  
Burton  or VK
ACT (VK)
Stratford  2016
Globe One Two (VK)  
RSC  Woke ONE. TWO
UAA (vk)
Animated or VK
Kiss Me, Kate (VK) Stage   Film
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Audio
Howard 1  2  3  4  5
Ark (VK)
Argo (VK)
BBC ( 1988 VK)
CBS (click #137)
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Comedy of Errors

BBC or VK
FKB  One   Two
RSC 78 (VK)
NT 2012   One  Two
Globe 2012  One. Two
RSC
Strat Fest 89
Angoor 84 Hindi
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Audio
Ark (VK)
LS Neville
Argo (VK)
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Love's Labour's Lost

BBC 1965
BBC PotM Brett 1975
Branagh 2000
WSU  1  2  3
Globe (VK)  ok
RSC  One  Two

Opera
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Audio
Arkangel or VK
Marlowe Soc. 1-3  3-5
Argo (VK)
LS Finch
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Midsummer Night's Dream

BBC or VK
Hall rsc 96
Rooney  or VK
Kline (VK)
Globe 2013
Globe
2016 BBC   or VK
Animated or VK
Taymor 14
2018
NTLive. 2019 ONETWO
Papp 1982   ONE  TWO
Trnka 1959 subtitles
Kemp 85


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Audio
BBC on 3 or YT 3 or VK
Ark (VK)
Naxos (VK)
Scofield  One &  Two
Argo  (VK)
OSF
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Merchant of Venice

BBC or VK
RSC 2015 (VK)
Globe  One. Two
Nunn 2001 (VK) OR YT
Welles (fragment)

Tchaikowsky opera

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Audio
Caedmon  One   Two
Marlowe Soc. 1  2  3  4  5
Ark (VK)
BBC (2000 VK)
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Merry Wives of Windsor

Globe  2012  (VK)
Globe 2019
St. Louis One  Two (static camera)
RSC. 2018 One  Two
TxSF 2012

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Audio
Ark (VK)
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Much Ado about Nothing

BBC or VK
Branagh or VK
Globe 2012  or VK 
2012 (!)
TSF One Two
Strat Fest

Opera
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Audio
Ark (VK)
BBC 2001 Tennant (VK)
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As You Like It

BBC 
Globe or VK
Animated or VK

NT 2016
Stewart 2019 gay
Strat Fest
CBC 83

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Audio
Redgrave  1-3   3-5
Marlowe Soc. 1  2  3  4  5
Caedmon ( 1963 VK)
Olivier One  Two
Ark (VK
BBC (2015 VK)
NT 1968 One  Two
LS Neville
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Twelfth Night

BBC  
Branagh 1988
Guiness 1969
Fraser (excerpts)
Nunn-Kingsley  1996 (VK)
RSC 2018. One. Two
Globe  2012  One. Two.  
Globe 2021 One Two
NTlive 2017  One Two
2003 (VK)
Linc Cent 1998
TxSF 2015
Animated or VK
Soviet 1955 (VK – Eng sub)


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Audio
Godfrey 1-2  3-5
Ark (VK)
BBC 1998 (VK)
BBC 1999 (VK)
On 3 (VK)
Scofield  1  2  3  4  5
LS Smith
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Troilus and Cressida

RSC 2019  ONE   TWO
SAI One Two (static camera)
Globe 2009

The Face of Love 1954
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Audio
Arkangel  or Ark (VK)
Marlowe Soc. One Two
BBC (VK)
Brett (VK)
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Measure for Measure

BBC 1979  "1990"
ACT One Two
BBC 1995 (VK)
2007 (VK)
RSC. 2019 ONE. TWO
Globe ONE Two
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Audio
Ark (VK)
Argo (VK)
BBC 2004 (VK)
Marlowe Soc. 1  2  3  4 5
LS Portman
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All's Well That Ends Well

BBC  
Globe ONE TWO  One Two (VK)
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Audio
Ark (VK)
BBC(VK)  YT
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Pericles

L Sch One Two
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Audio
Scofield  Here   1-3  4-5
Ark (VK)
LA TW (VK)
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Winter's Tale

KBTC 2015 OK  VK   One Two
Animated or VK
RSC Sher 1998   YT   or  VK
RSC  2021ONE.  TWO
Globe. 18  One Two

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Audio
Caed 1961 Gielgud
Ark  (VK)
LS Portman
Argo  VK
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Cymbeline

RSC. ONE TWO

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Audio
Karloff  1-2  3-5
Ark (VK)
BBC 3  (VK)

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Tempest

Strat 1982
Plummer stratford 2010 One    Two
Strat 2019 sub   VK
RSC 2017
Globe  2014
                            1 2 3 or VK
Jarman 1979 (!) or VK

Animated or VK
Purcell Ballet

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Audio
Redgrave 1-2  3-5
Marlowe Soc. 1  2  3  4  5
BBC 1974 (VK)
BBC 2001 (VK)
On 3 (VK)
Argo (VK)
CBC  (VK)
LS Wolfit

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HISTORY
King John

BBC  
RSC 2021
WSC (static camera)
globe



Audio
Ark (VK)
BBC 1984 (VK)
Argo VC
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“AN AGE OF KINGS” – 1960 BBC series
.  Richard II  /  Henry IV1,2   /   Henry V  /      Henry VI1,2,3          / Richard III
.          1 2    /     3 4 - 5 6     /        7 8      /   9 10 - 1112 13   /   14 15   (VK)
Here  (OK)                                                                             
The Hollow Crown 2012
Richard II  - Henry IV ONE - TWO A  B  -  Henry V   .
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Richard II

BBC or VK
  Tennant RSC or 1 2 3 (VK)
HC    
NTL 2019 One. Two 
Bard 1982. One  Two
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Audio
Ark (VK)
HC (VK)
BBC 1979 (VK)
2014 (VK)
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Falstaff”

Chimes at Midnight    OK or VK – Welles
Opera
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Henry IV, Part I

BBC or VK
ESC   or VK
HC      or  VK
Firth 1a 1b 2a 2b 3 4 5
Globe One  Two (VK)
RSC  One  Two (VK)
The King 2019
H4 2020

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Audio
BBC 1973 (VK)
BBC 1980 (VK)
BBC 1999 (VK)
Ark (VK)
HC  (VK)
Marlowe Soc. 1  2  3  4  5
LS Connery
Argo (VK)
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Henry IV, Part II

BBC or VK
HC     or  VK
Globe One  Two (VK)
RSC One Two (VK)
The King 2019
 H4 2020

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Audio
Caedmon  1-2  3-5
Ark (VK)
BBC 1973  YT  or VK
BBC 1980 (VK)
BBC 1999 (VK)
LS Wolfit
McKern
Argo (VK)
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Henry V

Olivier or YT
Branagh    or VK
HC   or  VK
RSC  One  Two (VK)
The King 2019
Babakitis 2010
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Audio
Ark (VK)
BBC 1981 (VK)
LS Burton
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Henry VI (1,2,3)  & Richard III

HC: The Wars of the Roses 2016
             Henry VI  ONE - TWO - Richard III
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Henry VI, Part I

BBC   (VK)
HC   or  VK  VK or YT
RSC   reading
______________________

Audio
Ark (VK)
BBC 1982 (VK)
______________________
Henry VI, Part II

HC    or VK
______________________

Audio
Ark (VK)
BBC 1982 (VK)
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Henry VI, Part III

HC     or VK or YT
______________________

Audio
Ark (VK)
BBC 1982 (VK)
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Richard III

BBC or VK
McKellen  or  YT
Olivier or VK
HC    or  VK
Almeida One Two (VK)

Looking for Richard (adaptation)
Animated or VK or YT
Spacey, Globe

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Audio
Ark (VK)
BBC 1982 (VK)
BBC 2013 (VK)
Barrymore (click #284)
LS Finch
RMT (paraphrase)
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Henry VIII

Globe  One  Two (VK)
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Audio
Ark (VK)

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TRAGEDY
Titus Andronicus

RSC.   ONE    TWO
Globe (VK)


Audio
Caedmon 1-4
Ark (VK)
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Romeo and Juliet

Zeffirelli or VK
Howard 1936
Bloom     or YT
1975 One  Two
1988 (VK)
SFVP 2001
Carlei 2013?
2014  or  VK
KBTC  OK    One Two (VK)
Globe 2010 One Two
RSC 2018 One Two
Globe 2019
Harvey   OK sub 1954
Studio One
Animated


Globe 2000 Port
Ballet: 
Prokofiev.   Bolshoi 89

Soviet 1955 ballet
Opera

Silent 1911
1920 comedy
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Audio
Finney 1  2  3  4  5
Marlowe Soc.  1  2  3  4  5
Caedmon (1961 VK)

RSC Bran (VK)
Ark (VK)
BBC 3 (VK)
On 3  (VK)
BBC 2003 (VK)
LA TW (VK)
Naxos (VK)
Aud (VK)
Aud (VK)
1993 (VK)
LS Michell
RMT (paraphrase)
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Julius Caesar

Heston.  OK 1950
Robards (VK) 1970
Stephens
RSC 2012 (VK)
RSC 2017. ONETWO
Globe One Two (VK)
Animated or VK
NT 2018

Merlo 1965 Span
Opera

Silent cc Music  1914 
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Audio
Caedmon 1966 Richardson 1-2  3-5
Marlowe Soc. 1-2   3  4  5
MDS  1  2  3  4  5
Ark (VK)
LA TW (VK)
BBC 1980 (VK)
Audio (VK)
Argo 1972 Rylands
LS Finch
RMT (paraphrase)
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Hamlet

BBC1980 OK
Olivier 1948 sub  or YT or VK
Kozintsev1964.  YT  One Two (sub)  1 2 (dub)
Plummer 1964  OK
Burton  1964. or here or here
Williamson1969 (VK).    OK
Crisp or  VK  (!)
Gibson 1990   OK 
Kline  1990 YT  or OK One Two
Branagh  1996
Hawke  2000
Hallmark 2000 One  Two
Brook    OK   2002
Tennant   RSC 2009
NTL Kinnear 2010.   One Two
NTL Cumberbatch 2015 HERE  or VK
Peake (!) RET 2015 OneTwo
RSC Stratford 2016   OK
Strat Fest HERE - ONE Two 
Globe 2015
Almeida 2018
RedSC 1  2  3  4
Mundell 2003 
Ramsay 2011
Evans  Hallmark 1953
Schell 1961 
Rylance 
Law  

Gassman 1955 Italian
Chinese 1990

Rock Opera (VK)

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Audio
Welles One Two
Ark (VK)
Argo (VK)
Naxos (VK)
Oregon (VK)
BBC 1971 (VK)
BBC 1999 (VK)
BBC 2014 (VK)
LATW
RMT (paraphrase)  Bristol  
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Othello

BBC Hopkins
Welles  1951
Olivier 1965 
McKellen (VK)  Nunn 1990  OK
Fishburne 1995 or  VK
Nat Th   One Two (VK)
RSC 2015 Strat ONE  TWO
Strat 
Globe One Two (VK).  2007 OK
Soviet 1955 (VK – Eng  sub)
Animated or VK
Richardson

adaptation
Eccleston 2001 


Gassman 1956 Italian 
Omkara Hindi 2006


Opera
Verdi
Zeffirelli (subtitles HERE)
Rossini
______________________

Audio
BBC (2004 VK)
Ark (VK)
LS Gielgud
RMT (paraphrase)
______________________
King Lear

BBC OR VK
Welles 1953
Kozintsev  (dubbed)
Scofield  1971
Jones  1974  YT.  or  YT or  VK
Hordern BBC PotM 1975
Olivier 1983  
Holm 1998 (VK)
RSC Sher 2016
McKellen   2008
McKellen    OK   2018
Strat Fest sub 2015 Here
Blessed  (VK)
Feore
Almeida Pryce 2012
Hopkins 2018
Magee (VK)
Sh Lives 2016 RET
Whare (VK) 
Globe 2017. One  Two
Marshall

Godard (‘adaptation’) or VK
Ran subtitle
Verdi opera

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Audio
Scofield 1-2  2-5
BBC 1983 (VK)
BBC 1988 (VK)
BBC 4 2016 (VK)
Argo  (VK)
LS Wolfit
Columbia
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Timon of Athens

Stratford   One   Two.    VK
RSC 2019
St. Louis  One  Two (static camera)
______________________

Audio
Ark (VK)
______________________
Macbeth

BBC or  VK  
Stewart. 2010  OK
McKellen 1979
Welles. 1948
Evans  1954
Evans  1960
SConnery  1961
Polanski  1971
Fassbender  2015. or VK 1 2 3
JConnery 1997
Sher RSC 2001  
Folger/Teller 2009 One. Two
Branagh NT 2013
RSC Eccleston 2018. One  Two
NT 2018 Kinnear   ONE   TWO
Globe 2014 One Two    One Two
Globe 2020
Almeida 2021
Washington 2021. . VK
Jayston.    YT
Brett (!)
Estate (VK)
Throne of Blood (adaptation)  subtitle
Animated or VK
Maqbool 2003 Hindi
Tarr (subtitles)

Verdi: 
Sub  Ferro  Opera  Met  Milan 2021 
______________________

Audio
Arkangel  or  VK
Guiness One  Two
Caedmon 1960
Marlow Soc. 1  2  3  4  5
BBC Williamson (VK)
BBC 2000 (VK)
Audio 1 2 3 4  5
RMT (paraphrase)
______________________
Antony and Cleopatra

Spread of the Eagle 1963 1  2  3
Heston   
Dalton (!)
Stratford      OK
RSC 2017 . One Two 
Globe  One Two  One Two(VK)

Barber (opera)  One  Two
______________________

Audio
Ark (VK)
BBC 3 (Bran VK)
Scales 1  2  3  4   5
LS Finch
Pendant 1  2  3a  3b  4  5
1978  One  Two
RMT (paraphrase)
______________________
Coriolanus

Fiennes 2011
Hiddleston NTl 2014 Donmar VK  
 NTL 2020
Stratford 2019
RSC 17
Globe
WSU 1  2  3
Burkoff One  Two
St. Louis One Two (static camera)

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Audio
Burton  1-2  3-5
Marlowe Soc. 1  2  3  4  5
Ark (VK)
Argo (VK)
BBC (VK)
LS Stride
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Two Noble Kinsmen

St. Louis One  Two (static camera)
==========


Audio
Ark (VK)
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Edward III

St. Louis (static camera)
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Audio
LibraVox 1  2  3  4  5
______________________
Sir Thomas More

______________________

Audio
______________________
Cardenio  “Double Falsehood” – article

PBSF 1995
MPP  One Two Three
WP  1  2  3  4
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Audio
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Edmund Ironside - Article
One  Two reading 
________________________________________________
Arden of Faversham
WPS (single  camera)
________________________________________________
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Soliman and Perseda
________________________________________________
The Famous Victories of Henry V
________________________________________________
The True Chronicle History of King Leir
________________________________________________
The Troublesome Reign of King John
________________________________________________
The Taming of  a  Shrew
One   Two
________________________________________________
The True Tragedy of Richard III
________________________________________________
Thomas of Woodstock
________________________________________________
The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine
________________________________________________
Fair Em, the Miller's Daughter of Manchester
_________________________________________________________
Tarleton’s News Out of Purgatory

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POETRY

Venus and Adonis
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The Rape of Lucrece
Logan One  Two
Argo (VK)
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The Phoenix and the Turtle
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A Lover’s Complaint
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Sonnets
Dove (VK)
Naxos (VK)
Butler (VK)
CL 1-5  6

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2 gent.  globe.  nt 
shrew. nt
com err nt
lll nt
drea, rsc
merch nt
mw nt
much as nt
as u    nt. rsc
TROI. NT
MRASUR NT
AllS WEll  NT RSC
PERI.  GLOBE  NT. RSC  
WINTER. NT
CYMB. NT. GLB\
TEMP. NT

K J NT GLB
R 2 NT
H4 NT
H5 NT
H6 G N R
R3 G N R 
H8 N R 

TITUS. NT
TIMON.  NT. GLB
COR NT

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Many thanks! I shall enjoy this immensely.