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Phil Daniels
From Puck life to Parklife, as the impish character in A Midsummer Night's Dream
  1. Phil Daniels
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    Phil Daniels
  2. Stephen Fry
    12:30
    Stephen Fry
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  3. Toni Morrison
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    Toni Morrison
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  4. Early appearances: Christopher Plummer and Michael Caine - Hamlet at Elsinore
    04:45
    Early appearances: Christopher Plummer and Michael Caine - Hamlet at Elsinore
  5. Shakespeare or Fletcher?
    02:40
    Shakespeare or Fletcher?
  6. Shakespeare's Globe The Complete Walk: Titus Andronicus
    03:22
    Shakespeare's Globe The Complete Walk: Titus Andronicus
  7. BBC Springwatch does Romeo and Juliet
    00:26
    BBC Springwatch does Romeo and Juliet
  8. Helen Mirren
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    Helen Mirren
  9. BBC Television Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet: Death Scene
    05:40
    BBC Television Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet: Death Scene
  10. Shakespeare's Globe The Complete Walk: Henry VIII
    03:10
    Shakespeare's Globe The Complete Walk: Henry VIII
  11. King Lear: Lear divides his kingdom
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    King Lear: Lear divides his kingdom
  12. Jack shall have Jill (and Jill shall have Jill)
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    Jack shall have Jill (and Jill shall have Jill)
  13. Early appearances: Paul Henry - A Midsummer Night's Dream (BBC, 1971)
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    Early appearances: Paul Henry - A Midsummer Night's Dream (BBC, 1971)
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  • Go, Make You Ready
  • Hamlet Returns - Shakespeare's Globe
  • King Lear
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  • Richard II
  • Richard III - Ian McKellen at the BFI
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  • Shakespeare Sex-List Song by Michael Nyman
  • Silent Shakespeare - from Shakespeare Day Live
  • Sound of Cinema - King Edward VI School, Stratford upon Avon
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