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First of a series of five talks on Shakespeare. Robertson Davies, master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, discusses Shakespeare’s biography.
Podcast. The director Archie Cornish and actors talk about the log-scene in The Tempest and how they interpret and perform it. Includes scenes from rehearsals and performance.
Dr Laurie Maguire of Magdalen College Oxford talks about her book ‘Where There’s a Will There’s a Way’ and Peter Kirwan looks at three interpretations of Macbeth.
Joel Hurstfield, University College London, and A G R Smith, University of Glasgow, argue that this is an unusual play in tems of structure, motive and character. The speakers define its strangeness and...
Uses video technology as a vehicle for arguments about current understanding of Shakespeare. Weaves performance, archive and film material with class and studio work in an attempt to consolidate recent...
Podcast. Actor Nick Lyons talks about the challenge of the language barrier and how he dealt with it for his role in the student production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Cambridge Experimental Theatre’s Hamlet, adapted for the stage by Roland Kenyon, challenges the entrenched notions of naturalism, sanctity of text, one-man-one-part and the tragic male hero, in a...
W. Moelwyn Merchant, University of Exeter, and Brian Morris, St David’s University College Wales, discuss the play. The character and dramatic presentation of Shylock form part of a wider discussion of...
Terence Hawkes (University College Cardiff) and W. Moelwyn Merchant (University of Exeter) describe Richard III as one of Shakespeare’s most modern plays in its political consciousness and interpretation....
Gareth Lloyd Evans, University of Birmingham, and Brian Morris, St David’s University College Wales, discuss the cosmic nature of the play, its exposure of the elemental in man and of the barbaric world he...
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