The winter's tale

Resource Information

The work The winter's tale represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The winter's tale

Statement of responsibility

by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Jonathan Miller ; director, Jane Howell

Contributor

• Time-Life Television
• Calder-Marshall, Anna
• Howell, Jane
• Kemp, Jeremy, 1934-2019
• Miller, Jonathan, 1934-2019
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Tyzack, Margaret, 1931-2011
• Ambrose Video Publishing
• British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service

Subject

• English drama (Comedy) -- Television adaptations
• Feature films
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Television adaptations
• Television adaptations
• Television plays
• Television programs -- Great Britain

Genre

• Television plays
• Feature films
• Television adaptations

Language

eng

Summary

King Leontes unjustly accuses his wife Hermione of adultery with King Polixenes. He imprisons Hermione, who falls into a swoon he believes is death, and orders her infant daughter to be abandoned on the shore. Sixteen years later, their daughter falls in love with Polixenes's son and when they come to Leontes' kingdom, her identity is revealed. Leontes and Polixenes become friends again, and Hermione is found to be alive after all

Member of

• Works
• Shakespeare plays

Cataloging source

IAD

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Senior cameramen, Jim Atkinson ; incidental music composed Dudley Simpson ; videotape editor, Ron Bowman

Date time place

Taped Apr. 9-15, 1980 at the BBC Television studios in London

PerformerNote

John Welsh (Archidamus), David Burke (Camillo), Robert Stephens (Polixenes), Jeremy Kemp (Leontes), Anna Calder-Marshall (Hermione), Jeremy Dimmick (Mamillius), Merelina Kendall (Emilia), Susan Brodrick (Lady to Hermione), Leonard Kavanagh (Lord to Leontes), John Bailey (Lord to Leontes), Cyril Luckham (Antigonus), William Relton (Lord to Leontes), Margaret Tyzack (Paulina), John Benfield (Gaoler/Mariner), Cornelius Garrett (Servant to Leontes), John Curless (Cleomenes), Colin McCormack (Dion), Emrys Leyshon (Court Official), Arthur Hewlett (Shepherd), Paul Jesson (Clown), Harold Goldblatt (Time), Rikki Fulton (Autolycus), Robin Kermode (Florizel), Debbie Farrington (Perdita), Janette Legge (Dorcas), Maggie Wells (Mopsa), Peter Benson (Clown's Servant), George Howe (Paulina's Steward), Pat Gorman (Bear), Sean Bartley (Peasant), Mary Milington (Peasant), Penny Ryder (Peasant), Johnny Shack (Peasant), Alan Vicars (Peasant)

Runtime

173

Series statement

• Complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare
• Shakespeare plays

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action