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Political advertisement. One in a series of commercials in the ‘Stevenson for President’ campaign that featured actual and fictional people voting for Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 American Presidential...
Satirical feature film setting the Romeo and Juliet story into Cold War politics. Igor Romanoff, the son of a Russian ambassador from an obscure Eastern European country, Concordia, falls in love with Juliet...
Arts strand of the televison documentary series, THIS WEEK. An 18 minute item contains scenes from Barbara Garson’s satirical play MacBird (a skit on Lyndon B. Johnson). MacBird learns from a fruit machine...
Anthology arts series. The programme examines how the ideas which Shakespeare’s play addresses (tyranny, ambition, power) have resonances in twentieth and twenty-first century politics and political...
Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield talk about their co-edited work Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultrural Materialism. Recorded at the National Humanities Centre, North Carolina.
A video recording of the play. A version of Hamlet set in contemporary Cairo.
BBC Radio 3’s arts and ideas series offering extended interviews and debate. Marking Shakespeare’s 450th anniversary Janet Suzman talks to Philip Dodd about acting, directing and South African politics.
Examines King Lear from a modern feminist viewpoint, opening up discussions about gender roles in Shakespeare’s text. The video juxtaposes the text as performed, against specially written scenes to...
Radio broadcast. Four-part series in which Huw Edwards discovers how some operatic masterpieces reflect the political and social circumstances of their age. In the final edition Edwards talks about Verdi’s...
Five-part series in which Michael Kustow explores Shakespeare’s status as the world’s most popular playwright. In episode two Kustow examines the political uses of Shakespeare, particularly under...