The Shakespeare Network’s YouTube channel has added more Orson Welles’ Shakespearean projects to its impressive online video and audio collection.
Earlier this week, a clean copy of the Mercury Text Records’ Macbeth debuted at youtu.be/mqr964x6Twk. The recording was first released in late 1940 by Columbia Records on nine 12-inch records and priced at $10.
Last month, The Shakespeare Network added a 14-minute compilation of The Merchant of Venice (youtu.be/Lwan2teWn1g). It is derived from Welles’ 1969 abridged production, a soliloquy from a variety show appearance, and a Shylock monologue filmed in the early 1970s. Also posted was the complete Columbia/Mercury recording of The Merchant of Venice from 1938 (youtu.be/3n8mFJ95rcI).
Wellesians can also find audio productions of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Caesar on the Shakespearean video channel. Trailers to his movies, Macbeth, Chimes at Midnight and Othello are on the channel, along with “voodoo” Macbeth newsreel footage from 1936, Peter Brooks’ live TV production of King Lear from 1953, and the 1978 documentary Filming Othello.
For fans of The Bard, the YouTube channel is a treasure trove of Shakespeareans delights with performances by Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.
Visit the Shakespeare Network’s YouTube channel at youtube.com/@ShakespeareNetwork.
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