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Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Washington he discovers that his plays are used to discuss ideas of power and politics. He meets Stephen Sondheim...
Radio broadcast, Writer Robert McCrum goes to America to assess Shakespeare’s appeal. In Nashville he watched Henry V set during the Civil War.Composer Stephen Sondheim and actor Alec Baldwin contribute....
Feature film set in 1950s America. An unconventional teacher inspires his pupils, one of whom (Neil Perry) is seen as Puck in a school production a A Midsummer Night’s Dream, parts of which are shown...
Radio series in five parts. Writers from Sierra Leone, Brazil, India, Iran and China explain why a playwright from sixteenth century Stratford resonates so powerfully in their own countries. In this fourth...
BBC Radio 3 arts series. Matthew Sweet presents a special edition examining the relationship between Shakespeare and Americans. Discusses the Californian goldrush and Alexis De Toqueville’s claim that...
Radio broadcast. First of a two-part educational language learning programmes focusing on Shakespeare as the world’s greatest poet and playwright.
Feature film epic telling the story of a group of Jewish gangsters from their youth in New York’s Lower East side through Prohibition to their reunion in the 1960s. Antony and Cleopatra is referenced...
Radio broadcast. Second of a two-part educational language learning programmes focusing on Shakespeare as the world’s greatest poet and playwright. This episode examines how events and cultural influences...
A videorecording of the play staged at the Globe Playhouse in Los Angeles in 1979 for the Shakespeare Society of America in which the costumes and reproduction of the Globe theatre stage contribute to...
A teaching package for American high school teachers and students comprising: Teacher’s Guide to Shakespeare’s life and times and his role in American culture, with lesson plans. Recitation Contest...
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