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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20070413 Friday April 13, 2007

Poor Yorick Shakespeare Catalogue

In case you are looking for a Shakespeare movie on DVD or video, or books, spoken word audio, teaching materials, or toys with a Shakespeare theme, check out:

On this web site you can even play "As You Like It Acrostics" in honor of the re-release of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet on DVD and his new film As You Like It in theatres this fall.

Poor Yorick is where to buy Kozintsev's King Lear, based on a translation by novelist Boris Pasternak with score by Dmitri Shostakovich (made in 1970 in the Soviet Union with the largest cast I have even for this play), most of Olivier's Shakespeare, the BBC play sets, newer releases like Michael Radford's Merchant of Venice (2004, with Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes), plus older classics.

Poor Yorick does not have everything: the 1935 Midsummer Night's Dream with young Mickey Rooney as Puck, James Cagney as Bottom, and Olivia de Havilland as Hermia is sadly missing but the inclusion of the 1968 MSND with Peter Hall directing the Royal Shakespeare Company (including Diana Rigg, David Warner, Ian Richardson, Ian Holm, and shapely Judi Dench as Titania dressed in just paint and a few leaves) makes up for it.

Posted at 11:42AM Apr 13, 2007 by katysblog in News & Reviews  |