Synopsis
Arts documentary examining cinema adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, notably King Lear, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and The Tempest. Penelope Wilton narrates. Part of a season marking the quatercentenary of Shakespeare's birth.
Further Information
Similar plays, poems and sonnets
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