A fine BBC adaptation of one of the bard's lesser known and earliest comedies observing the inevitable conflict between friendship and love when two friends travel to Milan and, regardless of their filial obligations, become besotted.
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THE WINTER'S TALE (BBC) (1981)
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This outstanding BBC production captures all the magical quality and dramatically changing moods of this great tragicomedy, one of the greatest of Shakespeare's works. Like all the Beeb productions this is the best version for study courses.
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THRONE OF BLOOD (MACBETH) (1957)
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One of the world's greatest filmmakers, Kurosawa, adapts Shakespeare's Macbeth to 16th Century Japan - the loss in language being more than compensated for by the misty and forbidding locations and the clever incursions of Japanese culture.
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TWELFTH NIGHT (TREVOR NUNN) (1996)
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An all star cast combined with Trevor Nunn's direction and the skills of a BBC production bring this classic tale to life. Possibly the bard's most famous comedy of mistaken identity where a shipwrecked brother and sister dress in clothes of the opposite sex and get entangled with others.
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