Shakespeare in Performance: Year
Productions made in the 1950's
| Title | Year | Creator | Country | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | 1959 | Colorado Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Antony and Cleopatra | 1959 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| As You Like It | 1959 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| Der Rest ist Schweigen [The Rest Is Silence] | 1959 | Helmut Käutner | Germany | recorded |
| Hamlet | 1959 | Ralph Nelson | GB | recorded |
| Hamlet: The Age of Elizabeth | 1959 | John Barnes | USA | recorded |
| Julius Caesar | 1959 | Stuart Burge | GB | recorded |
| Life and Death of King John | 1959 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Macbeth | 1959 | Claude Barma | France | recorded |
| Macbeth | 1959 | Colorado Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Measure for Measure | 1959 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Más fuerte que el amor. (Kiss Me Kate) | 1959 | Tullio Demicheli | Mexico | recorded |
| Othello | 1959 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| Richard II | 1959 | Colorado Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Sen Noci Svatojanske. [A Midsummer Night's Dream] | 1959 | Jirí Trnka | Czechoslovakia | recorded |
| The Life and Death of Sir John Falstaff: The Gadshill Job | 1959 | GB | recorded | |
| Twelfth Night | 1959 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Was Ihr Wollt | 1959 | Staatsschauspiel Dresden | Germany | stage |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | 1958 | Rudolph Cartier | GB | recorded |
| Baylor Theatre's Hamlet | 1958 | Gene McKinney | USA | recorded |
| Hamlet | 1958 | Colorado Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| I Henry IV | 1958 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| Julius Caesar | 1958 | Colorado Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Julius Caesar | 1958 | Eric Salmon | USA | recorded |
| King Lear | 1958 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Kiss Me Kate | 1958 | George Schaefer | USA | recorded |
| Macbeth | 1958 | Staatsschauspiel Dresden | Germany | stage |
| Merchant of Venice | 1958 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Much Ado About Nothing | 1958 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Much Ado About Nothing | 1958 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| The Ages of Man | 1958 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| The Merchant of Venice | 1958 | Eric Salmon | USA | recorded |
| The Taming of the Shrew | 1958 | Colorado Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 1958 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| The Winter's Tale | 1958 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| Troilus and Cressida | 1958 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | 1957 | Michael Benthall | GB | recorded |
| As You Like It | 1957 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Hamlet | 1957 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| Henry VIII | 1957 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| King John | 1957 | Royal Shakespeare Company | UK | stage |
| Kumonosu-Djo (The Castle of the Spider's Web). [Throne of Blood] | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | recorded |
| Othello | 1957 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Pericles | 1957 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| The Life of Henry V | 1957 | Peter Dews | GB | recorded |
| The Story of Mankind | 1957 | Irwin Allen | USA | recorded |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 1957 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Twelfth Night | 1957 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| Twelfth Night: or, What You Will | 1957 | David Greene | USA | recorded |
| Cymbeline | 1956 | GB | recorded | |
| Cymbeline | 1956 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung | 1956 | Staatsschauspiel Dresden | Germany | stage |
| Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Fred McLeod Wilcox | USA | recorded |
| Hamlet | 1956 | Staatsschauspiel Dresden | Germany | stage |
| Henry V | 1956 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| Henry V | 1956 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| Jubal | 1956 | Delmer Daves | USA | recorded |
| Kean | 1956 | Vittorio Gassman | Italy | recorded |
| King John | 1956 | American Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Love's Labour's Lost | 1956 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Mnogo shuma iz nichevo. [Much Ado about Nothing] | 1956 | L. Zamkovoi | USSR | recorded |
| Richard III | 1956 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Romeo and Juliet | 1956 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | 1956 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| The Taming of the Shrew | 1956 | Robert Hartung | USA | recorded |
| The Tempest | 1956 | GB | recorded | |
| Titus Andronicus | 1956 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| "To Be or Not to Be": Some Views of Shakespeare's Hamlet | 1955 | Seymour Robbie | USA | recorded |
| Dvenadtsataia noch. [Twelfth Night, or What You Will] | 1955 | Yakov Fried | USSR | recorded |
| Hamlet | 1955 | Kishore Sahu | India | recorded |
| Joe Macbeth | 1955 | Ken Hughes | GB | recorded |
| Julius Caesar | 1955 | GB | recorded | |
| Julius Caesar | 1955 | Daniel Petrie | USA | recorded |
| Julius Caesar | 1955 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| La mégère apprivoisée/La fierecilla domada | 1955 | Antonio Román | International | recorded |
| Othello | 1955 | Tony Richardson | GB | recorded |
| Othello | 1955 | William de Lane Lea | recorded | |
| Richard III | 1955 | Laurence Olivier | GB | recorded |
| Richard III: by William Shakespeare with Some Interpolations by David Garrick and Colley Cibber | 1955 | Laurence Olivier | GB | recorded |
| Romeo and Juliet | 1955 | Dallas Bower | GB | recorded |
| The Merchant of Venice | 1955 | GB | recorded | |
| The Merchant of Venice | 1955 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | 1955 | Glen Byam Shaw | GB | recorded |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | 1954 | USA | recorded | |
| Broken Lance | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk | USA | recorded |
| Ein Sommernachtstraum | 1954 | Staatsschauspiel Dresden | Germany | stage |
| Giulietta e Romeo. [Romeo and Juliet] | 1954 | Renato Castellani | International | recorded |
| King Lear | 1954 | USA | recorded | |
| Macbeth | 1954 | George Schaefer | USA | recorded |
| Measure for Measure | 1954 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| Prince of Players | 1954 | Eli Dunn | USA | recorded |
| Richard II | 1954 | George Schaefer | USA | recorded |
| Romeo and Juliet | 1954 | USSR | recorded | |
| Romeo and Juliet | 1954 | USA | recorded | |
| The Comedy of Errors | 1954 | GB | recorded | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | 1954 | USA | recorded | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | 1954 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| Ages of Man | 1953 | USA | recorded | |
| All's Well That Ends Well | 1953 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| As You Like It | 1953 | GB | recorded | |
| Hamlet | 1953 | Albert McCleery | USA | recorded |
| Henry V | 1953 | GB | recorded | |
| Henry V | 1953 | USA | recorded | |
| Julius Caesar | 1953 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | USA | recorded |
| King John | 1953 | The Old Vic | UK | stage |
| King John | 1953 | Harrow School | UK | stage |
| King Lear | 1953 | Peter Brook | USA | recorded |
| Kiss Me Kate | 1953 | George Sidney | USA | recorded |
| Othello | 1953 | USA | recorded | |
| Othello | 1953 | David Greene | Canada | recorded |
| Richard III | 1953 | Stratford Festival of Canada | Canada | stage |
| The Moor's Pavane | 1953 | Jose Limon | USA | recorded |
| This Is Charles Laughton | 1953 | USA | recorded | |
| Henry V | 1952 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Il mercante di Venezia: Le marchand de Venise | 1952 | Pierre Billon | International | recorded |
| King John | 1952 | GB | recorded | |
| King John | 1952 | France | stage | |
| Le rideau rouge: Ce soir, on joue Macbeth | 1952 | André Barsacq | France | recorded |
| Much Ado About Nothing | 1952 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| The Life and Death of King John | 1952 | Adelaide Repertory Theatre | Australia | stage |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | 1952 | Julian Amyes | GB | recorded |
| The Taming of the Shrew | 1952 | GB | recorded | |
| The Tempest | 1952 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| The Tragedy of Julius Caesar | 1952 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice: A Motion Picture Adaptation of the Play by William Shakespeare | 1952 | Orson Welles | International | recorded |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 1952 | GB | recorded | |
| Antony and Cleopatra | 1951 | GB | recorded | |
| Coriolanus | 1951 | Paul Nickell | USA | recorded |
| Coriolanus | 1951 | USA | recorded | |
| Julius Caesar | 1951 | GB | recorded | |
| Julius Caesar | 1951 | Leonard Brett | GB | recorded |
| King John | 1951 | England | stage | |
| King Lear | 1951 | Oregon Shakespeare Festival | USA | stage |
| Macbeth | 1951 | Franklin Schaffner | USA | recorded |
| Macbeth | 1951 | USA | recorded | |
| Macbeth | 1951 | Katherine Stenholm | USA | recorded |
| Romeo Land | 1951 | Hamilton Wright | USA | recorded |
| Romeo and Juliet | 1951 | USA | recorded | |
| As You Like It | 1950 | The Theatre Guild | USA | stage |
| Die Komödie der Irrungen | 1950 | Staatsschauspiel Dresden | Germany | stage |
| Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor | 1950 | George Wildhagen | Germany | recorded |
| König Johann | 1950 | Staatsschauspiel Dresden | Germany | stage |
| Maß für Maß | 1950 | Staatsschauspiel Dresden | Germany | stage |
| Othello | 1950 | Delbert Mann | USA | recorded |
| Othello | 1950 | GB | recorded | |
| Richard II | 1950 | GB | recorded | |
| Richard III | 1950 | USA | recorded | |
| Shakespeare og Kronborg | 1950 | Jørgen Roos | Denmark | recorded |
| The Taming of the Shrew | 1950 | Paul Nickell | USA | recorded |
| Tragedy of Othello | 1950 | GB | recorded | |
| Twelfth Night | 1950 | GB | recorded | |
| Viel Lärm um Nichts | 1950 | Staatsschauspiel Dresden | Germany | stage |
| Wie Es Euch Gefällt | 1950 | Staatsschauspiel Dresden | Germany | stage |