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The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare ' s plays, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language. [1] [2] [3] As of November 2023, the Internet Movie Database lists Shakespeare as having writing credit on 1,800 films, including those under production but not yet released ...
King John's Death Scene: Act 3, Scene 3 of King John (1899), corresponding to Act 5, Scene 7 in the original play. Prince Henry attends a poisoned and feverish King John as Lords Pembroke and Salisbury look on. King John is the title by which the earliest known example of a film based on a play by William Shakespeare is commonly known. [1]
Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852–1917), as King John in 'King John' by William Shakespeare, Charles A. Buchel (1900). The Life and Death of King John, often shortened to King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), the son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine and the father of Henry III.
Netflix's historical drama "The King" is an unusual project. The film is based on characters and stories from Shakespeare's famous "Henriad" series of plays – Henry IV pt 1, Henry IV pt 2, Henry ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream – by William Shakespeare; Of Mice and Men – by John Steinbeck; The Relapse – by Sir John Vanbrugh; An Italian Straw Hat – by Eugène Labiche; Oedipus the King – by Sophocles; A Christmas Carol – by Charles Dickens; Cyrano, a new musical version – book and lyrics by Anthony Burgess, music by Michael J. Lewis
Ironclad is a 2011 British action historical drama film [5] directed by Jonathan English.Written by English and Erick Kastel, based on a screenplay by Stephen McDool, the cast includes James Purefoy, Brian Cox, Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Vladimir Kulich, Mackenzie Crook, Jason Flemyng, Derek Jacobi, and Charles Dance. [6]
BBC Television Shakespeare; K. King John (film) King John (2015 film) S. Said-e-Havas This page was last edited on 26 November 2023, at 02:57 (UTC). Text is ...
Charles Kean (left) and Ellen Terry in The Winter's Tale, 1856. Terry was born in Coventry, England, the third surviving child born into a theatrical family. [2] Her parents, Benjamin (1818–1896), of Irish descent, and Sarah (née Ballard; 1819–1892), of Scottish ancestry, were comic actors in a Portsmouth-based touring company, [3] [4] (where Sarah's father was a Wesleyan minister) and ...