The Play on Screen

The Duchess of Malfi was first broadcast on television by the BBC as early as 1938, the same year they presented the first Shakespeare play ever broadcast. BBC produced the play again 1949, as did the CBC in Canada in 1962, and French television in 1965. However, only one full television production and one filmed stage version are generally available, and they will be discussed here. There have been no feature films, although there have been both film and television adaptations; and many short appropriations can be found on YouTube.