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Slide set. Since its opening in 1879 the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961, has won worldwide acclaim for the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. The slides show the...
Slide set. Between 1906 and his death in 1931, Charles Ricketts was the foremost practising designer of his generation in England working with Shaw, Granville Barker, Yeats and Sybil Thorndike. The slides...
Experimental film. A comparison of text from The Oxford Companion to English Literature, with a full blown rendering of the ‘Tomorrow’ speech. A Brechtian romp, an art school exercise.' [Description as...
BBC audiovisual resource on teaching theatre history for upper secondary school courses (age 13-16). Aided by a filmstrip and slides combining extracts from Cymbeline as performed by the Shared Experience...
Podcast. Professor Tiffany Stern gives a short talk on William Shakespeare and how his plays were performed in Elizabethan England. Stern talks of fools, prompting and cues.
Since its opening in 1879 the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1961, has won worldwide acclaim for the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. The slides show the developments...
Slide set. Photographs of William Poel’s productions, especially those which he mounted for the Elizabethan Stage Society between 1893 and 1905. Also illustrations showing both how Poel’s work was...
Leslie Hurry produced the stage designs for some 60 plays, operas and ballets between 1942 and his death in 1978. His first commission was Robert Helpmann’s ballet Hamlet and as a designer for the Royal...
Podcast of a Thursday lecture held at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. Cultural historian Erin Sullivan talks about the history of sadness in the sixteenth and seventeenth century with...
Podcast of a Thursday lecture held at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. Professor Russ McDonald proposes a new framework for examining the sonnets: Elizabethan visual design of the 16th...
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