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Jay Michaels talks to Rodney Hakim about supernatural themes in Shakespeare’s plays and how this reflected the attitudes and beliefs of the Elizabethan era.
Talk on ghosts and the supernatural in Shakespeare’s plays by Doll Piccotto, Silicon Valley Shakespeare’s Resident Dramaturg.
Podcast created, produced and hosted by American actors Korey Leigh Smith and Elyse Sharp, two self-confessed ‘Shakespeare nerds’ who devote multiple episode to analysing the Bard’s work. In this...
Video of the fifth lecture by Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA on how Shakespeare’s imagination was inspired by classical antiquity. Bate examines Shakespeare’s debt to Seneca and the myths of Theseus and...
An analysis of the text of Macbeth by Kim Edwards and Erica Hateley of Monash University. The film includes: discussion about the main characters, setting, themes and plot; the structure of the play; how...
Podcast series. in this edition, husband-and-wife Aidan and Lindsay discuss The Winter’s Tale, which they describe as follows: What do you get when you combine three acts of a tragedy, two acts of a...
BBC radio series. Six commissioned lectures on Shakespeare and his meaning in the modern world. In episode 5 writer and cultural historian Marina Warner considers Shakespeare’s use of the supernatural and...
W Moelwyn Merchant, University of Exeter, and Brian Morris, St David’s Univesity College Wales discuss Hamlet. They relate it to its time and review external evidence that can help in understanding the...
Considers the place of the supernatural in a revenge drama; the strained atmosphere in the Danish court; Hamlet’s sense of a polluted and restricted environment; Polonius’ behaviour as father and...
Television series for schools. A partner series to MACBETH first broadcast in the autumn term 1970. REFLECTIONS considers the five main themes of the play - tyranny, loyalty, ambition, man and woman, and the...
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