William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is a short film from 1955 released on 16mm. It is held in the IUL Moving Image Archive collection.

Traces the course of William Shakespeare's life from his boyhood in Stratford through his career in the London theatre as actor and dramatist. Presents excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, As you like it, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth as the...

William Shakespeare
Release date	1955
Running time	0:25:21
Language	English

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71149

Summary

Traces the course of William Shakespeare's life from his boyhood in Stratford through his career in the London theatre as actor and dramatist. Presents excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, As you like it, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth as they would have been performed on the stage of Shakespeare's own theatre, The Globe.

Physical Format

1 Film (0:25:21)

16mm

IUL Genres

Biographical

Historical

IUL Subject

English literature

History and criticism

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Full Original Title

William Shakespeare