This BBC producion has won high praise for outstanding sets, atmospheric music and for all-round exuberance and that touch of magic. Like most BBC productions this is the definitive study version.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM (1999)
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Star-spangled, lavish looking reworking of Shakespeare's whimsical comedy, shunted forward to the 19th Century. Comfortably condensed into two hours, with lots of lurex and digital effects, some might say this is the literature-lite version, but it's refreshingly unpretentious, and the four leads are excellent as the quartet of bickering lovers, with Calista Flockhart being mischieviously cast as the whingingly desperate Hermia. A tad "amateur-dramatics-society" in places, but the sight of Flock
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A WINTERS TALE (2007)
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Compelling and eclectic love story that explores lost love and the innocence of passion. The young Felicie has a romantic tryst that leaves her with a daughter but no husband.,Her obsessional search for the father leads her into two equally unhappy relationships. A charming and tender story.
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ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (BBC) (1981)
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Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her? BBC doing the full text. As only they can do. Apparently.
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ANONYMOUS (2011)
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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (1981)
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Colin Blakeley and Jane Lapotaire star as two of the most famous lovers in history in this superb Jonathan Miller directed adaptation of Shakespeare's turbulent script. The 16th Century setting gives a non-traditional feel, but the cast and direction are of the highest BBC standards.
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AS YOU LIKE IT (BBC) (1989)
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Shakespeare's delightful romantic comedy is given the usual high class treatment by the BBC.
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AS YOU LIKE IT (BRANAGH) (2006)
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Set in 19th Century Japan, but shot here with a largely Brit cast, Kenneth Branagh's much criticised adaptation of The Bard's comedy of errors. 'All the world's a stage...'
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BREAKING BAD SEASON 3, DISC 2 (2011)
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CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (1965)
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Sir John Falstaff is the hero in this compilation of extracts from Shakespeare's 'Henry IV' and other plays, combined into a story of Falstaff's career as young Prince Hal's drinking companion. The massive knight roisters with and without the prince, philosophises comically, goes to war (in his own fashion), before settling into life in medieval Englande.
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