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Jack shall have Jill (and Jill shall have Jill)
Titania and Oberon duet in Shakespeare's Globe's Midsummer Night's Dream
  1. Jack shall have Jill (and Jill shall have Jill)
    02:43
    Jack shall have Jill (and Jill shall have Jill)
  2. Rapping The Merchant of Venice
    01:21
    Rapping The Merchant of Venice
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  3. What would you ask Shakespeare? Maxine Peake
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    What would you ask Shakespeare? Maxine Peake
  4. Early appearances: Bob Hoskins - Othello (BBC, 1981)
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    Early appearances: Bob Hoskins - Othello (BBC, 1981)
  5. Roger Pasco and David Collings
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    Roger Pasco and David Collings
  6. Living Shakespeare: Dame Evelyn Glennie on The Tempest (UK)
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    Living Shakespeare: Dame Evelyn Glennie on The Tempest (UK)
  7. Welcome to Shakespeare Land!
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    Welcome to Shakespeare Land!
  8. Ivy's Henry VIII
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    Ivy's Henry VIII
  9. Virginia McKenna as Juliet
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    Virginia McKenna as Juliet
  10. Sitar playing for A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe
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    Sitar playing for A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe
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    Michael Kitchen and Roger Daltrey
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    Hamlet at Elsinore (1964)
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