![]() It’s just sublime – and Michael Brooke calls it “comfortably the most visually imaginative and cinematically adventurous silent British Shakespeare film”, so I am in good company. Try another of my favourites, the 1911 Richard III on for size.įrank Benson had been playing Richard III for decades at this point, and his ease in the role really shows, especially during these haunting scenes from Bosworth field. The glimpse of Herbert Beerbohm-Tree as King John is really something, and the hand-stencilled colours of Re Lear are sumptuous, but I must confess I do have a favourite: the charming, ingenious version of The Tempest, directed by Percy Stow for the Clarendon Company in 1908. On the left, that looks at the extreme like a brave new world order that. Richard III (GB 1911 23 min) a condensed version of one of the Stratford productions mounted by the F.R. This tells us, among other things, that the kind of intimate, silent dialogue.The Merchant of Venice/Il Mercante di Venezia (Italy 1910 10 min).A Midsummer Night’s Dream (USA 1909 12 min).Where the manager and club prefer to remain mostly silent around the incidents that occur. ![]() He liked Bernard he was grateful to him for being the only man of his acquaintance with whom he could talk about.
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