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Three-part radio documentary series, narrated by Sam Waterston, made to mark the 75th anniversary, in 2007, of the Folger Shakespeare Library. The series explores the influence of Shakespeare on American...
Tape-slide. Illustrates Shakespeare’s personal and political environments, how they may have influenced his work, and some of the major events during his years as an actor, poet, and playwright....
Independent fiction short. "T’o have seen what I have seen, see what I see!" (Hamlet Act 3 Sc i). The painting of Ophelia by John Everett Millais, is used as a metaphor for Kashmir, a country caught...
Illuminates the play’s central themes and characters. Examines the further establishment of Falstaff as, amongst other things, an emblem of disorder. Poses the question as to whether permanent political...
Professor A. R. Humphreys and Roger Warren, University of Leicester, discuss the play.
Illustrates the twin themes of order and chaos. Compares the self-confessed orderly intentions of the Prince to his chaotic behaviour. Explores the relationship between the political and the low-life scenes....
The West Indian historian C L R James talks about King Lear and why Shakespeare, ‘the most political writer that Britain has ever seen in regard to the creative arts’, was ‘no racist’. He quotes...
Feature film. A heavily abridged version of the play with emphasis on the scenes between Antony and Cleopatra. Much of the political plot and some of Enorbarbus’ lines are omitted. A narrator explains...
Deals with the literary and political context of the play. Focuses on key scenes which develop the ideas of kingship and honour. Considers the quarrel between Mowbray and Bolingbroke, Gaunt’s dying speech,...
Continues the theme of the first ‘Hamlet’ workshop by further examining the relationship between the soliloquies and the dynamic political moments of the play. Director John Russell Brown works on Act II...
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