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Second of a 5-part series of scholarly talks on Shakespeare’s history plays. Emrys Jones looks at the new dramatic genre of the Shakespearean secular history play within the theatrical fashion of its time.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests Emma Smith, Gordon McMullan and Katherine Lewis discuss Shakespeare’s versions of history, starting with the English Plantagenets, covering the eight plays produced from Richard...
Radio schools broadcast. The second story in the ten-part history series by Rhoda Power features an imaginary account of Shakespeare’s childhood intended for 13-14 year old schoolchildren.
Recording of a lecture by Dr. Elliot Engel that looks at how plays were staged in Elizabethan times and what audience expectations might have been.
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to Lucy Wooding about her book, Tudor England: A History, that explores popular misconceptions about the period’s society and culture.
First of a 5-part series of scholarly talks on Shakespeare’s history plays. Anthony Tuck, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Lancaster University, compares and contrasts images of kingship in...
Recording of an illustrated lecture by Brandi Adams (Arizona State University) in which she looks at the history of the First Folio and Shakespeare in print. The lecture is followed by a Q&A session.
Podcast hosted by Barry Edelstein that explores Shakespeare outside of the theatre. In this edition he travels to California’s Centinela State Prison to see their production of the Shakespeare history plays.
Professor G.K. Hunter places Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 within the cycle of Shakespeare’s history plays and examines Shakespeare’s achievement in them.
Audiovidual presentation by Dr. Matthew J. Hernando that looks at the history of stage drama and focuses on deveolopments in 16th and 17 century Elizabethan England and Tokugawa Japan.
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