The Lady of Shalott
About the Film
In celebration of the 2009 bicentenary of the birth of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) WAG Screen made a short, filmed dramatisation of his poem The Lady of Shalott to be shown at The Collection, Lincoln. Inspiration for the visual imagery came from the many Pre-Raphaelite paintings that the poem inspired, but most especially the paintings of the artist John William Waterhouse. We also filmed the reading of the poem by Tennyson to an after dinner audience at Christmas 1856. These are now all available on DVD:
- The Lady of Shalott dramatisation (14 minutes)
- Tennyson reading The Lady of Shalott (9 minutes)
- Conversation between Ben Poole (Tennyson) and Grace Timmins (Tennyson Research Centre) (16 minutes)
- Dante Ferrara – La Donna di Shalott, music video (4 minutes)
You can buy of copy of the film from our online shop
Down she came and found a boat
Beneath a willow left afloat,
And around about the prow she wrote
The Lady of Shalott.
Above: Victoria Rigby as the Lady of Shalott
Picture by Nick Loven
Above: Ben Poole as Tennyson.
Picture by: John Bennett
hello my name is frederikcka a wont to see film Lady of shallot thank you
8 March 2011 at 2:49 pm
could it be possible for me to view the film ”the lady of shalott”?
12 April 2011 at 1:26 am
Yes, you can purchase a copy here. Look at the top of the WAG Screen page and click on ‘shop’ you can purchase the Lady of Shalott or the Luttrell Psalter Film there.
22 April 2011 at 8:32 am
You can purchase a copy of the Lady of Shalott DVD here on the web site or you can have a look at the trailers – there are three in total and you can see one on our front page. We are currently donating 50% of the DVD sales to help our American friend and colleague with her medical bills after a family accident.
8 June 2011 at 1:36 pm
Hi there,
I would very much like to your film on the Lady of Shallot but I cannot find it. Could you please recomend somewhere to buy it?
Thanks.
Dan.
22 April 2011 at 1:07 am
Thank you for your interest. Look at the top of the WAG Screen page and click on ‘shop’ you can purchase the Lady of Shalott or the Luttrell Psalter Film there.
22 April 2011 at 8:31 am