television
television.Televised Shakespeare has been performance history's disdained foster-child. Whether broadcast live as in the earliest years or filmed for television from original scripts, cut from big-screen versions or filmed from a stage production, it has rarely achieved the status of large-screen film (itself something of a stepchild). The reasons are simple: television Shakespeare may be interrupted by commercials, shaped to fit a specific time-slot (particularly in the USA), prepared on the cheap without the production values of big-time film, and the victim of small image size, fuzzy contrast, shallow depth of field, and other defects of low-resolution output. In spite of these shortcomings, Shakespeare on television has had a notable past and promises to be even more significant in the HDTV and DVD future. More than any other form, TV has brought Shakespeare to the millions. No one has made a film of All's Well That Ends Well, but there have been...
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