Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Hamlet
All animation techniques are painstaking, but that of painting on glass is especially so. This unusual medium succeeds impressively in capturing the ghostly presence of Hamlet's father and the agonized indecision of Hamlet himself, in this classic d...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - King Richard lll
The richly rewarding technique of painting on glass has been uniquely explored for this blackest of black comedies. No compassion is shown by the hunchback King Richard, whose unquenchable thirst for power destroys his wife, his brother, his best fr...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales -The Tempest
A marvelous and terrifying island, peopled by spirits and monsters, is the ideal setting for demonstrating how puppets can become extraordinarily convincing "actors". Caliban becomes an almost "human" monster and Prospero's magic brings the spirit A...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Julius Caesar
Shakespeare's dramatization of the alliances and intrigues that surrounded and finally destroyed the great Roman General is rendered with style and subtlety by superb cel animation. This study of personal power versus the good of the state is still ...