This Gateway includes nearly 1,900 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email or telephone.

BBC Shakespeare Archive Resource
The site contains hundreds of television and radio programmes from the BBC’s Shakespeare collection, as well as more than a thousand photos from classic Shakespeare productions. The programmes are available for streamed playback only in a UK educational setting, for example in a classroom, lecture theatre or for academic research. To play the programmes, or see the photos, users will need to prove you are part of a school, FE college or a university, using the authentication box on the site.

Folger Library Podcasts
Podcasts which aim to further the study of Shakespeare and the Renaissance. Includes the rapidly growing audio series SHAKESPEARE UNLIMITED where scholars talk on a range of topics including translating Shakespeare, Shakespeare and music and Shakespearean comedy. The Folger Audio Editions are studio recordings, produced by the Folger Theatre, from the complete, unabridged texts of the Folger Editions and performed by leading Shakespearean actors. The site also hosts podcasts from 2010 to date of Shakespeare’s Birthday Lectures where scholars again lecture on a wide range of topics.

Globe Player
This Video on Demand platform offers full length HD films of over fifty Shakespeare productions at the Globe to rent or buy. Shakespeare’s Globe is the first theatre in the world to offer this kind of on-demand platform for digital content. Every foreign-language production from the 2012 ‘Globe to Globe’ festival of international Shakespeare has been made available on film, alongside main productions from the 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009 summer seasons, including Twelfth Night with Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry, and Much Ado About Nothing with Eve Best. The main 2013 titles including Dominic Dromgoole’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Eve Best’s directorial debut Macbeth will be made available soon. The site has some free content including the Sonnet Project NYC, which involves each of the 154 sonnets being read by a different actor in a different location in New York. The Muse of Fire features conversations with notable actors and scholars – including Judi Dench, James Earl Jones, Harold Bloom and Fiona Shaw – talking about Shakespeare’s place in the modern world.

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust cares for the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare-related material accessible by the public and houses the Royal Shakespeare Company Archive. The RSC archive includes videotaped performances of its productions at its theatres in Stratford-upon-Avon and London since 1982. Full cast and production details can be found on the RSC’s Performance Database and the BUFVC’s International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio. The Library and Archives Catalogue also holds DVDs and video cassettes of commercially available Shakespeare-related material which can be searched from the RSC catalogue; this material can be consulted on site in the Library.

MIT Global Shakespeares
The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world (with an emphasis on Asia) as well as essays and metadata by scholars and educators in the field. Links to online reviews are also provided for some plays. The archive is a work in progress and currently (2/2016) includes a catalogue of more than 400 streamed productions (some full length, others clips). This archive is intended to promote cross-cultural understanding and serve as a core resource for students, teachers, and researchers. The Database can be searched via play title, country of production and language.

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust cares for the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare-related material accessible by the public and houses the Royal Shakespeare Company Archive. The RSC archive includes videotaped performances of its productions at its theatres in Stratford-upon-Avon and London since 1982. Full cast and production details can be found on the RSC’s Performance Database and the BUFVC’s International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio. The Library and Archives Catalogue also holds DVDs and video cassettes of commercially available Shakespeare-related material which can be searched from the RSC catalogue; this material can be consulted on site in the Library.