Cressida 1969 - Twelfth Night 1971 - Othello 1973 - Richard II 1976 - Much Ado About Nothing 1977 - The Pillars of the Community 1978 - Love's Labour's Lost 1978 - Merchant of Venice 1978 - The Way of the World 1980 - The Greeks 1981 - Merchant of Venice 1986 - The Rover 1988 - Three Sisters 1995 - Cain 1995 - Life's a Dream 1995 - Waste 2000 - Tantalus Filmography As cast member/instructor: 1982 – Playing Shakespeare (TV) As writer: 1965 – The Wars of the Roses (TV) 1970 – Hallmark Hall of Fame – Hamlet (adaptation) (TV) 1984 – Morte d'Arthur (adaptation) (TV) 1991 – The War That Never Ends (TV) As director: 1965 – War of the Roses (TV) 1968 – All's Well That Ends Well (TV) As actor: 1984 – Morte d'Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory References The Royal Shakespeare Company: A History of Ten Decades by Sally Beauman, Oxford (1982) Who's Who in the Theatre, 17th edition; Volume 1, ed. Ian Herbert, Gale (1981) (Barton's own CV, p. 47). Bibliography Barton, John; Cavander, Kenneth. Ten Greek Plays Given as a Trilogy. London: Heinemann, 1981. Barton, John. Playing Shakespeare. London: Methuen, 1984. Greenwald, Michael L. Directions by Indirections (John Barton of the Royal Shakespeare Company). Cranbury: Associated University Press, 1985 Pearson, Richard. A Band of Arrogant and United Heroes (Adelphi Press, 1992) Barton, John. "The Shakespeare Sessions". The Working Arts Library/Applause, 2007 External links John Barton at the British Film Institute 1928 births 2018 deaths Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Commanders of the Order of the British Empire English theatre directors People educated at Eton College Writers from London